Tuesday, February 14, 2017

It's All In The Handshake


Trudeau prepares to shake hands with Trump in the Oval Office at the White House. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

The Telegraph: Justin Trudeau's handshake with Donald Trump the 'biggest display of dominance in the history of Canada'

No longer are diplomatic power struggles between nations played out in intense negotiations and high stakes summits. Instead, it's all in the handshake.

Donald Trump had left Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, reeling after a 19 second handshake last week in the White House.

Before that, the US president had grasped Theresa May's hand in an act that was splashed across the front pages as a sign of the "special relationship".

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WNU editor: It must be a slow news day when all they talk about is a handshake.

3 comments:

Bob Huntley said...

If the slow news day means Trudeau hasn't given the country away yet there is hope.

Anonymous said...

Seriously nothing of significance at all. https://youtu.be/o2eFzAByfAo?t=14

TWN said...

Handshakes mean nothing, the bottom line is that the leaders of supplicant countries go to the dominant and in private supplicate to him, Trudeau in private kissed Trumps ass, as did Abe and May.The US still has the power over us and there is not much we can do about it.