Janet Yellen Questioned About Success In Communications With Her Chinese Counterpart

At her press briefing last night, Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen answered a question about the efficacy of her communications with her Chinese counterpart relating to national security and economic interests.

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[stellacatfish]

It's like sending Grandma to go beat the hell out of a bully. What an embarrassment!!!

[joe.oneill]

Yellen: "I bowed, my counterpart didn't. China proclaimed it a success."

[WAR_]

She is openly being mocked in china, they called her "dumb" on their news

[Noe]

Wow, great job to her on choosing the most obscure language possible to sound as vague as possible!!! Kudos. In lamens terms, she went to talk and gave her message and the Chinese were not convinced about her message, which means she was unsuccessful in anything. Hahaha.

[pastortroy]

I don't understand her specific kind of stupid but I do admire her total commitment to it.

[supergram]

She looked ridiculous bowing like a wind up toy .😂

[martinsnyder]

All of the American companies needs to be made to come back to America and help make America great again.

[Sneaky-Sneaky]

So as usual …. She didn’t answer the question…..so I’m going to answer it for her….’NO’ !

[benitosalazar]

China is building the largest military the world may ever see and we send a person who identifies as a poodle to represent us.

[PatrickJDoyle-bwfu]

The communist Chinese have zero respect for women, and for us to send a women to barter with these communists, was asinine.

[thomasmalone]

She's not qualified for the job she's got, how did anyone think she'll convince the Chinese to do anything at all?

[citomp]

Translated, we did what ever China wanted. We citizens won't see the effects immediately.

[silverevans]

This administration is an embarrassment for the United States

[admiralb]

It was unfair to allow Ms Yellen to go up against Chinese counterparts who achieved their positions through merit and competence. Her previous cringe worthy pronouncements regarding inflation and bank failures should have been an indication this might not be the best choice for an international negotiator.

[Rodeo]

No I didn’t get anything fixed but I scored some money for joe and I!

[juliewhitworth]

She should have asked them to turn around and bow and preceeded to kiss their asses!!

[rohmarts]

Pretty easy when you are both working for the same outcome.

[robertfiorellino]

We should have sent Kamala. She could have used her persuasive Willie Brown technique to get us a concession or two.

[singledad]

Does anyone remember during the hight of coronavirus janet yellen was in a video talking about people comply with the vaccination. She said the once that dont comply we make them. That was very disturbing. I'm not surprised that video has been removed from youtube.

[manofchelan]

That was one humongous run-on sentence.