Old Joe Biden, who is, you may recall, still ostensibly the president of the United States, has journeyed to Lima, Peru to attend the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) conference. While the actual action occurs off the record, for conferences typically feature a lot of mind-numbing jumble. Therefore, all the world’s top dogs gather for a party pictures to express their love for one another before returning home until the following one.
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You’ve seen the images, not only from APEC, but from many other events like it. The president of the United States, as the head of the world’s wayward power, is always front and centre. As long as these events have been held, this has been the case. But no again. Old Joe was relegated to the back row during the elaborate image shot at APEC on Saturday, standing between Vietnamese President Lng Chong and Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
Lame-duck Biden is humiliated in the back-corner of the APEC family pictures as Xi of China occupies the honors column. twitter.com/a5VTMioyrs— New York Post ( @nypost ) November 16, 2024
Perhaps a quick glance at the photo makes it abundantly clear that the world’s prominent leaders are just arranged in alphabetical order by nation. That’s why we see in the front row, from left to right, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, Canada’s vacant-faced autocratic Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chilean President Gabriel Boric, and therefore Xi Jinping of China. So you see, Old Joe ended up way in the back because” United States” comes alphabetically between” Thailand” and” Vietnam”. Yes, second to Xi was Peru’s President Dina Boluarte, who was the only one out of chronological order by state, but Peru was hosting the event, but Boluarte presumably thought she had pride of place.
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So that’s all there is to it: only the fate of the alphabet pick, right? Perhaps not. When China is trying to grow its effect globally, and the alphabetical  design simply happens to place Xi front and center, APEC would suddenly decide that what they really need to do is line up all the world officials alphabetically by land. It would also be a remarkable accident that Old Joe Biden placed the United States in the back row at the same time as American power and prestige have never been more revered than they have been in the past, despite this fact.  ,
If you’re skeptical, test out APEC’s 2023 pictures. There is no mention of a country-specific alphabet design. Old Joe is happily positioned in the center of the front row, giving off the most believable, self-assured, and pleasant appearance. Xi is manner over to the area, next to the craven Trudeau.  ,
Old Joe’s punishment did not go unnoticed. The leader of the United States was “petty humiliated,” according to the New York Post on Saturday, which they actually called him,” came before his Saturday evening meeting with Xi, who has been feted with sibling hulasmah during the APEC occasion in Lima as a result of his country’s funding of a sizable new port on Peru’s coast.”
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The Post continued, noting that Old Joe’s “increasing irrelevance domestically and internationally has earned him the nickname of” very lame bird.” Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N. Y. ) noted that Biden’s back row placement showed that contrary to his administration’s boasts that Old Joe would restore America’s prestige worldwide, today’s global leaders do n’t “take Biden seriously anymore”. She added:” They definitely should have invited President-elect Trump down — I’m sure , he would’ve been in the center of the image with Xi Jinping. I do n’t think these international players take Biden seriously , anymore ever since] Rep. ] Nancy Pelosi threw him out”.
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Alas, the drop started much before. Due to the rapidly botched departure from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, it was probable that Binding began to lose value among his foreign peers. Even though both Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran are determined to destroy the Israeli state, it is unlikely that the nation’s leaders have been unaware of his repeated betrayals of one of America’s most trustworthy friends, Israel, and his savage funding of both.
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America has come to be a third-class energy as a result of Old Joe Biden’s mismanagement and the actions of those who are enraging him. The receiving president has made his whole agenda his attempt to restore America, and the decline has been undeniable, but it is not inevitable. One thing is sure: if Trump attends APEC 2025, he’ll be back and facility in the picture.