Tit for tat...
US spy agency apologizes for tweet about ‘classy’ Chinese welcome
RT, 5 Sep 2016
The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has apologized for a tweeted joke about the welcome for President Obama’s team upon their arrival at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China.
The now deleted tweet had a link to an article by the New York Times, describing a row between Chinese security personnel and US journalists and officials. The tweet itself read: “Classy as always China.”
Though taken offline by the DIA, the tweet has circulated online as a screenshot.
The agency later issued apologies by posting another message instead, saying that its tweet “regarding a news article was mistakenly posted” from its account and did not “represent the views of DIA.”
“We apologize,” the agency added at the end of its post.
Obama’s arrival in Asia has been marred by several rows, the first starting on the Hangzhou airport tarmac.
Despite standard protocol, there was no staircase waiting for the president to exit the plane at the main door. The US leader had to opt for narrower stairs and the tail-gate as an alternative exit. A red carpet - standard in such cases - was also nowhere to be seen, so Obama had to walk the carpet-less concrete surface.
The standoff had started before that, however, as a Chinese official attempted to prevent US National Security Adviser Susan Rice from walking to the motorcade as she crossed a media rope line. It wasn’t clear if the official knew that Rice was a top member of the US delegation and not a journalist.
The same Chinese official then proceeded to blast the press corp for standing too close to the president under the wing of the plane. In response, White House officials told him that it was a US plane and the US president, to which the Chinese official responded angrily, “This is our country! This is our airport!”
As tempers frayed, Secret Service personnel stepped in, although they usually deal with the US president’s security only.
The whole scene took place without President Obama present, as he was still inside the plane at the time.
No red carpet treatment for Obama at G20, China says he never asked.
The altercations didn’t end there, though. The Washington Post reported that later on several White House protocol officers and other staff members came to a diplomatic compound ahead of Obama’s meetings, but were prevented from entering.
“The president is arriving here in an hour,” one of the staff said, but Chinese officials still wouldn’t let anyone in – reportedly almost resulting in a fistfight.
“Calm down, please. Calm down,” another White House official was reported as saying.
The row continued inside, with Chinese and US officials arguing if there was enough room for the 12 US journalists traveling with Obama. US officials insisted that there was, while the Chinese said there wasn‘t.
Following the incidents, Obama said he would not “overcrank the significance" of it. The president noted however that the American press had the right to report on his arrival and that the US does not leave its “values” and “ideals” behind when making such trips.
President Obama arrived in Hangzhou on Saturday for the G20 summit that kicked off on Sunday.
Selected Readers' Comments:
# Obama "freely navigates" his way out of his plane via the back entrance onto Chinese territory. I would say he has learned with a jolt that US hegemony is ended in this part of the world...forever.
# why should anyone want to welcome him
# Shouldn't foreign journalists be able to quiz the "leader of the free world" and ask him about the "values" that he has brought with him? That would be quite a grilling. Instead, the president wants his room full of US journalists that ask 'fluffy' questions for their own narrative. It makes it easier for their purposes and reduces the "friction" :-)
# Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and then began Arab Spring, brought prosperity in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan ... good neighborly relations with Russia, China, Iran ...and do anything to help even bigger peacemaker Clinton to succeed him and bring "peace on Earth"
# Drone attacks in Pakistan, Turning a blind eye in Yemen .... Oh, and is Guantanamo closed yet?
# Nobel Peace Prize ... what a gimmick!
# It's just the beginning. Hope to see many others treat USA like this in future.
# It wasnt a mistake. They just backtracked their words. Trust me, in an organization like this, there are no foolish mistakes. Probably because they feared Chinese to retaliate. U.S owes China lots of money after all.
# China is on debt to their throat too. Their economy will clash soon as George Soros said.
# You take a nutjob criminal's words? US economy is a lot worse.
# It is estimated that U.S houseowner total debt is around 39k dollars per a house. If China would ask it's money back, U.S would go bankrupt in a second. But then again, so would China and other countries due to globalization.
# You don't demand respect as you have to earn it. But US government doesn't know anything about these values. They only know one language, i.e the language of destruction. I wouldn't be wrong in terming them Barbarians of the modern era.
# Classy US diplomacy, like wine made by Rambo & Halliburton.
# Was she dual citizenship Israeli/American by any chance?
# This is coming from the US president himself...[the US does not leave its “values” and “ideals” behind when making such trips.] Then China was smart as well as cautionary as it knows too well about "American values and ideals" such as trying to continue the long held tradition of electing criminals for US Presidents, invading any other sovereign nation that they feel threaten by and while at it, stealing their resources as well as any and all ancient museum quality statues and miscellaneous art pieces. China has been around for over 5,000 years by taking a back seat to criminals and invaders!
# He got a better welcome than he deserved.
# Just another sign that the USatanic Empire is over !
# G19 without this unsavory character from the US of A would have been classier.
# "the US does not leave its “values” and “ideals” behind when making such trips." US leaves deaths, chaos, and terrorists behind when making military trips.
# Murican media are just a bunch of freakin' unruly mob. They are all caught up in the delusional, self-aggrandizing propaganda of the US regime, its agencies and the US Congress of war criminals.
# Obama lost all respect, even among his peers (the other heads of state).
# Dddddown you go....
# Who organized these conflicts? Namely Barack Obama and it unleashed a war in the Middle East, and has provoked a coup in Kiev, but now he is white and fluffy, calls for peace and order.
# Obama should have been deported back to USA as soon as he landed as persona non grata.
# In diplomacy, the term persona non grata (Latin, plural: personae non gratae), literally meaning "person not appreciated", refers to a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government. -Wikipedia
# Murican values and ideals? WTF.
# People kill each other in that country for a jacket, a smartphone or a pair if Nikes.
# obama stealing fish from the yellow sea.
# The problem is the US regime chief and the US MSM do not know they are not welcome anywhere outside USA.
# How can there be trust to the terrorists and criminals of US ? Let the americans trust him to remove the coconuts with palm tree.
# Most people don't know that only US presidents make of their presence on conferences real circus with bunch of reporters, security, administration etc. There are jokes about this among every conference organizers...US president and 1000 clowns has arrived.
# US MSM just repeats the lies, distortions and delusional propaganda of the US regime of the day in Washington. The press asks no questions and demands no supporting evidence for the ludicrous claims and pompous statements the regime flacks put out every day.
# There is no free, independent MSM in the US of A.
# This is China, our airport!!!... wow China flexing their muscles. Don't kid with these people USA!!!
# At the beginning on the whole world says, that the Russia is number one enemy, and then is surprised, that there is no trust in him. He's either an stupid or a lying person, although one the other does not exclude....
# U.S.A= United Snake of Africa
# USA's delusional propaganda says the US regime leader is also the leader of the free world.
Where exactly is this free world? EU and Europe are not free. They are a bunch of captive, vassal states from the WWII era.
# Please remember - our President is NOT a king, or any kind of royalty, needing any kind of special "welcome." He is a man, elected by the people of his country to lead them, of which he is not doing a very good job.
# Lucky for the U.S the Philippine President was not there.....
# US is exceptional nation, therefore they accept him solely as the lame duck, who tired of all with his delusions.
# Yapping and then always apologizing, typical classy American phenomenon.
# Why apologize for something that is true? Chinese are dirty and filthy who use childish tactics to put down other nation. They want to be a superpower, they should act like one. America is turning into a sissy
# When you walk around your apartment and see 90 percent of things there made in China I would say we are funding them well.
# the president should have just walked back on to the plane and come on home. then simply stopped funding china. I will never understand this presidents conciliatory attitude. he has soaked up every insult and presented the world with the image that he can be slighted with no consequences. the secret service has nothing to apologize for, america has never failed to show proper respect to the Chinese delegation even when they came to Washington state. what this shows is how we are viewed by the world...See more
# "What this shows is how we are viewed by the world", there you said it. America used to try to act with honor, and so had respect, but instead of learning from their defeat by Vietnam, they have just gone on creating war after war. The world is no longer as forgiving of their errors of judgement. Everyone knows there is no dignity in sowing needless death and destruction , regardless of how mighty you are.
RT, 5 Sep 2016
The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has apologized for a tweeted joke about the welcome for President Obama’s team upon their arrival at the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China.
The now deleted tweet had a link to an article by the New York Times, describing a row between Chinese security personnel and US journalists and officials. The tweet itself read: “Classy as always China.”
Though taken offline by the DIA, the tweet has circulated online as a screenshot.
The agency later issued apologies by posting another message instead, saying that its tweet “regarding a news article was mistakenly posted” from its account and did not “represent the views of DIA.”
“We apologize,” the agency added at the end of its post.
Obama’s arrival in Asia has been marred by several rows, the first starting on the Hangzhou airport tarmac.
Despite standard protocol, there was no staircase waiting for the president to exit the plane at the main door. The US leader had to opt for narrower stairs and the tail-gate as an alternative exit. A red carpet - standard in such cases - was also nowhere to be seen, so Obama had to walk the carpet-less concrete surface.
The standoff had started before that, however, as a Chinese official attempted to prevent US National Security Adviser Susan Rice from walking to the motorcade as she crossed a media rope line. It wasn’t clear if the official knew that Rice was a top member of the US delegation and not a journalist.
The same Chinese official then proceeded to blast the press corp for standing too close to the president under the wing of the plane. In response, White House officials told him that it was a US plane and the US president, to which the Chinese official responded angrily, “This is our country! This is our airport!”
As tempers frayed, Secret Service personnel stepped in, although they usually deal with the US president’s security only.
The whole scene took place without President Obama present, as he was still inside the plane at the time.
No red carpet treatment for Obama at G20, China says he never asked.
The altercations didn’t end there, though. The Washington Post reported that later on several White House protocol officers and other staff members came to a diplomatic compound ahead of Obama’s meetings, but were prevented from entering.
“The president is arriving here in an hour,” one of the staff said, but Chinese officials still wouldn’t let anyone in – reportedly almost resulting in a fistfight.
“Calm down, please. Calm down,” another White House official was reported as saying.
The row continued inside, with Chinese and US officials arguing if there was enough room for the 12 US journalists traveling with Obama. US officials insisted that there was, while the Chinese said there wasn‘t.
Following the incidents, Obama said he would not “overcrank the significance" of it. The president noted however that the American press had the right to report on his arrival and that the US does not leave its “values” and “ideals” behind when making such trips.
President Obama arrived in Hangzhou on Saturday for the G20 summit that kicked off on Sunday.
Selected Readers' Comments:
# Obama "freely navigates" his way out of his plane via the back entrance onto Chinese territory. I would say he has learned with a jolt that US hegemony is ended in this part of the world...forever.
# why should anyone want to welcome him
# Shouldn't foreign journalists be able to quiz the "leader of the free world" and ask him about the "values" that he has brought with him? That would be quite a grilling. Instead, the president wants his room full of US journalists that ask 'fluffy' questions for their own narrative. It makes it easier for their purposes and reduces the "friction" :-)
# Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and then began Arab Spring, brought prosperity in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan ... good neighborly relations with Russia, China, Iran ...and do anything to help even bigger peacemaker Clinton to succeed him and bring "peace on Earth"
# Drone attacks in Pakistan, Turning a blind eye in Yemen .... Oh, and is Guantanamo closed yet?
# Nobel Peace Prize ... what a gimmick!
# It's just the beginning. Hope to see many others treat USA like this in future.
# It wasnt a mistake. They just backtracked their words. Trust me, in an organization like this, there are no foolish mistakes. Probably because they feared Chinese to retaliate. U.S owes China lots of money after all.
# China is on debt to their throat too. Their economy will clash soon as George Soros said.
# You take a nutjob criminal's words? US economy is a lot worse.
# It is estimated that U.S houseowner total debt is around 39k dollars per a house. If China would ask it's money back, U.S would go bankrupt in a second. But then again, so would China and other countries due to globalization.
# You don't demand respect as you have to earn it. But US government doesn't know anything about these values. They only know one language, i.e the language of destruction. I wouldn't be wrong in terming them Barbarians of the modern era.
# Classy US diplomacy, like wine made by Rambo & Halliburton.
# Was she dual citizenship Israeli/American by any chance?
# This is coming from the US president himself...[the US does not leave its “values” and “ideals” behind when making such trips.] Then China was smart as well as cautionary as it knows too well about "American values and ideals" such as trying to continue the long held tradition of electing criminals for US Presidents, invading any other sovereign nation that they feel threaten by and while at it, stealing their resources as well as any and all ancient museum quality statues and miscellaneous art pieces. China has been around for over 5,000 years by taking a back seat to criminals and invaders!
# He got a better welcome than he deserved.
# Just another sign that the USatanic Empire is over !
# G19 without this unsavory character from the US of A would have been classier.
# "the US does not leave its “values” and “ideals” behind when making such trips." US leaves deaths, chaos, and terrorists behind when making military trips.
# Murican media are just a bunch of freakin' unruly mob. They are all caught up in the delusional, self-aggrandizing propaganda of the US regime, its agencies and the US Congress of war criminals.
# Obama lost all respect, even among his peers (the other heads of state).
# Dddddown you go....
# Who organized these conflicts? Namely Barack Obama and it unleashed a war in the Middle East, and has provoked a coup in Kiev, but now he is white and fluffy, calls for peace and order.
# Obama should have been deported back to USA as soon as he landed as persona non grata.
# In diplomacy, the term persona non grata (Latin, plural: personae non gratae), literally meaning "person not appreciated", refers to a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government. -Wikipedia
# Murican values and ideals? WTF.
# People kill each other in that country for a jacket, a smartphone or a pair if Nikes.
# obama stealing fish from the yellow sea.
# The problem is the US regime chief and the US MSM do not know they are not welcome anywhere outside USA.
# How can there be trust to the terrorists and criminals of US ? Let the americans trust him to remove the coconuts with palm tree.
# Most people don't know that only US presidents make of their presence on conferences real circus with bunch of reporters, security, administration etc. There are jokes about this among every conference organizers...US president and 1000 clowns has arrived.
# US MSM just repeats the lies, distortions and delusional propaganda of the US regime of the day in Washington. The press asks no questions and demands no supporting evidence for the ludicrous claims and pompous statements the regime flacks put out every day.
# There is no free, independent MSM in the US of A.
# This is China, our airport!!!... wow China flexing their muscles. Don't kid with these people USA!!!
# At the beginning on the whole world says, that the Russia is number one enemy, and then is surprised, that there is no trust in him. He's either an stupid or a lying person, although one the other does not exclude....
# U.S.A= United Snake of Africa
# USA's delusional propaganda says the US regime leader is also the leader of the free world.
Where exactly is this free world? EU and Europe are not free. They are a bunch of captive, vassal states from the WWII era.
# Please remember - our President is NOT a king, or any kind of royalty, needing any kind of special "welcome." He is a man, elected by the people of his country to lead them, of which he is not doing a very good job.
# Lucky for the U.S the Philippine President was not there.....
# US is exceptional nation, therefore they accept him solely as the lame duck, who tired of all with his delusions.
# Yapping and then always apologizing, typical classy American phenomenon.
# Why apologize for something that is true? Chinese are dirty and filthy who use childish tactics to put down other nation. They want to be a superpower, they should act like one. America is turning into a sissy
# When you walk around your apartment and see 90 percent of things there made in China I would say we are funding them well.
# the president should have just walked back on to the plane and come on home. then simply stopped funding china. I will never understand this presidents conciliatory attitude. he has soaked up every insult and presented the world with the image that he can be slighted with no consequences. the secret service has nothing to apologize for, america has never failed to show proper respect to the Chinese delegation even when they came to Washington state. what this shows is how we are viewed by the world...See more
# "What this shows is how we are viewed by the world", there you said it. America used to try to act with honor, and so had respect, but instead of learning from their defeat by Vietnam, they have just gone on creating war after war. The world is no longer as forgiving of their errors of judgement. Everyone knows there is no dignity in sowing needless death and destruction , regardless of how mighty you are.
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