Berlin is a kowtow town
When Angela Merkel is not in town, that is. Instead of following the Chancellor’s lead and showing a little backbone by openly receiving the Dalai Lama in the German capital, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) will officially have other pressing engagements to attend to when the Tibetan leader comes for another visit on May 19 (Angie will be doing South America).
Steinmeier chose not to elucidate further what he will be doing that day, but sources close to him are pretty sure that it will include hiding under his desk while prostrating, kneeling and repeatedly bowing toward China in abject submission.
Clearly preferring to follow the lead of his once fearless leader Gerhard Schröder instead, Steinmeier is beleived to have a mortal fear of the mere thought of possibly ever coming even remotely close to “hurting the Chinese people’s feelings” by making such a risky move like meeting and maybe touching and possibly even talking to Mr. Lama while others are watching so he is absolutely positively determined to stay in hiding until that awful Buddhist madman goes away again.
After all, had we listened to statesmen Schröder and those like him, China and Tibet (but especially China) would not be in the awful mess they now find themselves in today.
„Zu den Gründen dafür machte er keine Angaben.“
Steinmeier chose not to elucidate further what he will be doing that day, but sources close to him are pretty sure that it will include hiding under his desk while prostrating, kneeling and repeatedly bowing toward China in abject submission.
Clearly preferring to follow the lead of his once fearless leader Gerhard Schröder instead, Steinmeier is beleived to have a mortal fear of the mere thought of possibly ever coming even remotely close to “hurting the Chinese people’s feelings” by making such a risky move like meeting and maybe touching and possibly even talking to Mr. Lama while others are watching so he is absolutely positively determined to stay in hiding until that awful Buddhist madman goes away again.
After all, had we listened to statesmen Schröder and those like him, China and Tibet (but especially China) would not be in the awful mess they now find themselves in today.
„Zu den Gründen dafür machte er keine Angaben.“
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