After getting in the car, Qin commented that Xu Bingjie looked relaxed, and guessed that it was not a bad thing for the American president to break the convention this time.
The U.S. State Department is very close to the White House, about ten minutes, the car drove into Pennsylvania Avenue, a white neo-classical sandstone building quietly located in the tall trees in the green space.
Qin Yi is no stranger to this place. The White House is open to the outside world. She has visited here before when she was in Washington.
The English name of the White House is the white house. If the literal translation should be called "°×ÎÝ", it sounds very simple, but in fact the White House is quite simple, at least not luxurious compared to the real "palace". The Rose Garden, Fountain, South Lawn, and the First Lady¡¯s vegetable garden. It is said that the last time a Chinese leader visited the United States, some of the ingredients for the dinner came from the White House vegetable garden.
After the car stopped, Foreign Minister Lou and his party stepped into the White House under the guidance of the US Secretary of State.
As soon as he walked in, a staff member suddenly ran to the US Secretary of State and whispered a few words. The US Secretary of State's face changed slightly, and then he turned to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and said, "Mr. Foreign Minister, please wait a moment in the reception hall. I will inform Mr. President."
After he left, he didn't come back for nearly half an hour.
Not only did the President of the United States and the Secretary of State disappear, but there was not even a bureaucrat to entertain.
Qin Yi was very puzzled. She guessed that the President of the United States broke the convention and met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in advance, which should be regarded as a high-level reception for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lou. The U.S. Secretary of State's politeness is actually correct. Huaguo is indeed one of the most important diplomatic relations of the United States. Although there are constant frictions, more frictions also mean a close relationship.
This kind of relationship is two-way. Even if the United States wants to bring down Huaguo all day long, it does not dare to turn against Huaguo easily, because it will not only cause huge losses to Huaguo, but the United States cannot be alone.
"Director Xu, what's going on here? The President of the United States is trying to punish us?" She whispered to Xu Bingjie.
Xu Bingjie shook her head, "It stands to reason that the President of the United States should personally welcome our foreign minister. If he is dissatisfied with our country, refusing to meet our foreign minister is the most appropriate way."
Xu Bingjie also thinks that the President of the United States should treat Foreign Minister Lou courteously. So her original guess was correct, but it is not the case now. It should be that something happened that they don't know about.
Qin Yi frowned slightly.
It's too passive to wait like this, and I don't know what will happen to the US president later. This president is notoriously fond of messing around.
"How about I go ask?"
Xu Bingjie thought for a while, and felt that it was not a good idea to wait like this, and said: "There are surveillance cameras everywhere in the White House, so be careful."
Qin Yi nodded, picked up her small bag, and went outside the reception hall to have a look. There was no one there. Inside was the foreign minister of China, representing the leaders of China and the country who came to meet with the President of the United States. The White House's contempt was serious. The point can be said to be contempt for Hua, a major diplomatic accident!
It's just too deceiving!
With a sullen face, she turned into the aisle according to her memory, looking for the White House personnel in charge of reception.
"Stop! Who are you?"
Today is not an open day, and Qin Yi's movements were quickly spotted by the people here.
The White House guards are from the Secret Service, and they carry out security tasks with guns. Qin Yi did not dare to act rashly, stopped, and said in pure English: "I am the follower of the Chinese Foreign Minister. Our Foreign Minister has been receiving Waiting in the hall, I now need to find relevant personnel to ask, what is the matter that Mr. President called our foreign minister but avoided seeing him."
The guard sized her up: "Can you show me your ID?"
"You should have been notified that our foreign minister met with Mr. President today. Whether I am an entourage should also be recorded."
The White House is known as the most heavily guarded place in the world. The Secret Service dispatched more than 3,000 guards to take care of the security of the former and current presidents. She did not believe that the guards would not have relevant information about the Chinese foreign minister and his party.
When it came to diplomacy, the guards didn't dare to act rashly, so they had to lead her the way.
She was taken to the reception area of ??the office area, and after waiting for less than two minutes, a woman in a beige plaid skirt came over, looked at her with probing eyes, and asked with a serious face: "Are you accompanying the Foreign Minister of China?" personnel?"
Qin Yi was already in a very upset mood. She didn't believe that these reception staff didn't know why she came here, especially this woman was still standing and asking questions, and her words seemed condescending.
But this is the White House, she didn't want to make any extra trouble, and said calmly: "Yes, I would like to ask the PresidentWhat is the teacher doing now? "
The woman frowned, "What Mr. President is doing is confidential, I'm afraid I can't tell you."
"Then why did he invite our foreign minister to the White House but avoid seeing him? Is there anything more important than meeting our foreign minister?"
"Of course, the United States bears different responsibilities in different regions of the world, and Mr. President has a lot of important things to deal with." The woman's tone was serious, but it didn't prevent Qin Yi from hearing the strong arrogance and contempt in it.
It's making trouble in various parts of the world.
Qin Yi mocked in his heart, but remained calm: "Since Mr. President is so busy, why did you ask our foreign minister to postpone the meeting with Mr. Secretary of State and come to the White House?"
"This is Mr. President's decision, and I don't know."
"Then may I ask you to ask what's going on?"
"I'm afraid this is not possible. Mr. President is discussing important matters with his staff, and he needs to wait until the discussion is over before asking."
"So how long will it take for the discussion to end? Is there a specific time?"
The woman smiled: "Sorry, I can't answer this question, please wait patiently with your foreign minister."
"Wait a minute? Are you saying it will end soon? Then I'll just sit here and wait."
The smile on the woman's face froze. Is this woman from Huaguo pretending to be a fool or a fool? Can't you tell that she is refusing? He managed to maintain a smile and said, "This is our office area, I'm afraid it's inconvenient for you to stay here."
"In this case" Qin Yi stood up, looked at the other party's fake smile, and said, "I don't think we need to see each other again for this meeting. I will go back and tell our foreign minister that Mr. President is not sincere, and we are no better than looking at people here face!"
The woman's face changed, "What do you mean? You have no right to make decisions on behalf of the foreign minister of China! If you don't take back what you just said, I will report this to your foreign minister!"
"What do you mean?" Qin Yi smiled, and his eyes suddenly sharpened, "Our foreign minister is here to visit your country on behalf of Hua. Called to the White House to deliberately ignore, there is not even a receptionist in the reception hall, isn¡¯t it deliberately humiliating our foreign minister? Deliberately humiliating China?!¡± (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com