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G-20; No Red-Carpet Stairs for US president Barack Obama at Air Force One

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Channel: Samuel Ezerzer · 2016 · News & Politics

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No red carpet for US president Barack Obama at G20: Was it for China’s ‘national pride’ or sign of new world order?
US President Barack Obama was deprived of a grand descendence on the red carpet from Air Force One at the ongoing G20 meet in China.
September 5, 2016 1:02 PM

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http://www.financialexpress.com/world/china-obama-g20-summit-airport-arrival-controversy/367443/
G20: Even as the US President Barack Obama has sought to downplay the ‘snub’ he received from China upon his arrival at the 11th G20 meet in Hangzhou city, the controversy over the incident refuses to die. President Obama was deprived of a grand descendence on the red carpet from Air Force One at the ongoing G20 meet. He had to walk into a chaotic scene, with Chinese security officials cordoning off members of the White House press corps to prevent them from recording the arrival.

The incident happened as reportedly Chinese officials reversed their decision to allow the Americans to use a set of rolling air stairs for Obama’s grand descendence. When the American showed they were willing to use a Chinese stairway, the local official insisted on sending a Chinese driver for taking the equipment to Air Force One.

However, the US officials demanded an English-speaking driver but were refused by the Chinese. At the time of the landing, the Chinese had relented asking the American to use their own stairs, but by then the US officials had decided to use a smaller exit door in the belly of the aircraft.
The treatment meted out to President Obama is being seen by many as not only a sign of China’s growing defiance towards the US but also growing “nationalist pride” across the country under President Xi Jinping.
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