So that lavish state dinner President Obama hosted for Chinese President Hu Jintao last week? Turns out it was an even worse decision than previously thought. Not only did Obama honor a regime of human-rights abusers, but it turns out they weren"t even appreciative. According to the Epoch Times, a pianist at the event played a well-known Chinese propaganda song that"s about defeating the U.S. in a war. And it sounds like the Chinese government may have known the song would be played beforehand.
Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie SBattle on Shangganling Mountain.
The Epoch Times provided some of the song"s lyrics, which literally translate into: SWhen friends are here, there is fine wine /But if the jackal comes /What greets it is the hunting rifle. The Sjackal line refers to the U.S.
The song apparently thrilled hardliners in China, who saw it as a major humiliation of America:
SIn the eyes of all Chinese, this will not be seen as anything other than a big insult to the U.S., says Yang Jingduan, a Chinese psychiatrist now living in Philadelphia who had in China been a doctor in the Chinese military. SIt"s like insulting you in your face and you don"t know it, it"s humiliating.
The whole concept of the Chinese playing an anti-American song during a state dinner in their honor is too petty and childish to even be insulting. The embarrassing part is that Obama-administration officials didn"t bother to find out the background of the songs on the agenda before they were played. In comparison, the Chinese delegation reportedly knew about the song in advance, and may have been the ones who tipped off news outlets in China beforehand:
Cheng said that SThe White House had to report in advance to the Chinese delegation and so the Chinese delegation would have certainly known Lang Lang"s program.
Cheng believes, however, that the Chinese delegation would see no reason to suggest a change in the program. SThe program is not against the interests of China. In fact, it is the opposite.
Awful. This is worse than Obama"s bow to the Japanese emperor in 2009. The White House better have a serious explanation for why this song was allowed to be played at its own party. And it should also serve as a lesson to Obama for why we don"t throw state dinners in honor of openly anti-American governments.
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