Former Chinese president Hu Jintao escorted out of party congress as Xi Jinping looks on

[oioioi]

Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Former Chinese president Hu Jintao has been unexpectedly led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress in a dramatic moment that disrupted the highly choreographed event.

The frail-looking 79-year-old seemed reluctant to leave the front row of proceedings at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, where he was sitting next to President Xi Jinping.

A steward attempted to take a sitting Mr Hu by the arm before being shaken off. The steward then tried to lift up Mr Hu with both hands from under the armpits.

A seated Mr Xi was filmed holding papers down on the desk as Mr Hu tried to grab them.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-22/hu-jintao-chinese-ex-president-escorted-out-of-party-congress/101566426

[turbinetree]

1. Again why does the greed from Airbus and Boeing keep turning a blind eye to that countries

atrocities...in fact the entire world....Richard Nixon has to be laughing in his grave....

[oldsoftie]

3. Why do we continue to allow ANY important company to do business with them?

Why single out the airlines?
We get far too many critical items FROM China; which puts us at risk. And we (and the EU) keep giving them the money they use against us

[Evolve Dammit]

10. most of our drugs for example... Out-sourcing was always a bad idea, and the giant sucking sound...

[oldsoftie]

14. 95% of our antibiotics come from china. Inexcusable. nt

[turbinetree]

12. This is very much true.....I keep thinking of the glass cockpit technology and the radar

in those commercial planes, some of that technology is used in fighter bombers and fighters.....and then there is the helmet that is /will be linked to the glass cockpit.....F-22 and the F-35 and some older planes that are being upgraded....

AV 2.2 Next Generation Fixed Wing Helmet

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2022/07/01/us-air-force-picks-lift-airborne-technologies-helmet-fixed-wing-aircraft/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Air%20Force%20has%20picked%20California%2Dbased%20LIFT%20Airborne,Next%20Generation%20Fixed%20Wing%20helmet.

[StormKing]

13. CAPITALISM

Capitalism was built on White Supremacy and cheap labor. In our racism we never expected China would grow strong if we fed them. We were stupid.

[turbinetree]

15. There dislike of this country goes back to the Boxer Rebellion......

[catsudon]

2. like a comedy movie

Hu Jintao's voice from offstage: "Someone help me! I-I'm still alive, only I'm very badly burned . . . Hello out there! Anyone! Could someone call an ambulance? I'm in quite -- a lot of pain . . ."

[SunSeeker]

4. Sounds like dementia or mental illness.

That sort of thing happens when you install people for life.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. The "Bring Out Your Dead" skit from Monty Python The Holy Grail

I'm not dead. I'm not dead.

I'm getting better. I don't want to go.

I feel fine. I think I'll go for a walk. I feel happy. I feel happy.

[IronLionZion]

9. im very badly burnt (austin powers)

[Warpy]

5. He was reluctant, the goons were brusque

Xi must consider him a grave threat.

Hu's safety is probably in question.

Xi removed term limits 4 years ago. Meet the new Emperor, just like the old Emperors.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. I believe Hu just got the goodbye look.

[IronLionZion]

8. Nixon should have never opened relations with China

Damn Republicans

[dalton99a]

16. +1. Kissinger was the mastermind

The ‘intertwining’ of the two economies, as Kissinger puts it, through the ’90s, of the US trade with China overtaking its trade with Taiwan, resulted in a sevenfold increase in Chinese exports to the US. ‘American multinationals viewed China as an essential component of their business strategies, both as a locus of production and as an increasingly monetary market in its own right.’ Kissinger viewed increased Chinese exports to the US as contributing to an American leverage on China, increasing China’s ‘dependence’ on the US. What he failed to draw attention to was the equally important leverage China had acquired vis-a-vis the US by becoming a vital component of the business strategy of every Fortune 500 company in the US. ...

Publishing his book on China in 2011, three years after the trans-Atlantic financial crisis and China’s emergence as a trading superpower, Kissinger found no reason to revisit his argument about co-evolution of the two trading giants. Kissinger’s support for China’s entry into the WTO was not just academic. He used his considerable influence to actively lobby on behalf of American corporations with financial and commercial interests in China. Kissinger Associates, Inc. became an influential money-spinner in Washington, DC’s policy world, with many of its associates walking in and out of key government jobs as senior members of successive administrations. In ‘buying’ Chinese friendship during the Cold War, Kissinger had essentially invested in the ‘selling’ of American business to China and Chinese interests to US policymakers. The bilateral business and political relationship has since defined the US-China equation through the post-Cold War era.

[David__77]

17. We can thank Jimmy Carter for constructive diplomatic relations with China.

It was the right thing in 1979, and it’s the right thing today.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Xi is a brutal dictator with a nice smile. It's not the Chinese people's fault. Same as Russia, etc

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. For this thread

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