The ‘New York Post’ generated controversy after pointing out Joe Biden’s location in the official APEC 2024 photo as a “humiliation.” However, his position was due to a strictly protocol issue.
The claim of the American portal went viral on social networks ‘New York Post’ on the position that Joe Biden had in the official photo of APEC 2024, whose location far from President Dina Boluarte was described as a “humiliation“However, the place that the president of the United States had was due to a protocol issue.
The order of the senior officials and international leaders that make up APEC responds to a theme of alphabetical order, where the host usually goes in the middle. Despite this, Biden’s location did not go unnoticed due to two more factors: The president of China, Xi Jinping, was next to Dina Boluarte and was one of the first to arrive; while the president of the United States arrived last and was placed between the leaders of Thailand and Vietnam.
The order was always the same for the United States
Protocol training in the official photograph of APEC 2024 has followed the same patterns to those of previous editions in Peru. As happened in 2016, at that time, Barack Obama as president of the United States, took the same position in the upper right corner where Joe Biden was located. Even on that occasion, the Chinese president also shared proximity with the Peruvian head of state, a detail that seems to be maintained in this multilateral event.
Similarly, in 2008, during the summit organized under the presidency of Alan García, the then US president George Bush was placed in the same position as Biden and Obama in later years. In this way, an alleged “humiliation” towards Biden is refuted, as suggested by the ‘New York Post’.
