So I was on a Japanese stream waiting for DragonBallSuper to start but there was still some time left and some news debate was going where I assume discussion about America, China and Japan was going on. They also focused in on a book release "THE HUNDRED-YEAR MARATHON China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower Michael Pillsbury"
During this time they showed footage of a old Chinese leader shaking hands with various American politicians/diplomats
Now the handshake seemed rather odd, it looked like the old man was in visible pain as his hands were being held too strongly by everyone,extremely strong/tight grip handshakes were being done as far as I can tell and the old man didn't looked a bit shocked and in pain
They(TV Debate) were focusing on the handshake so that's what I could make out of it maybe it was something completely different
But anyway the footage was extremely old I think one the men that I saw in the video was either Henry Kissinger or Nixon (I'm not from the US so forgive me if I don't recognize them )
So what was the invent? Who was there ? Am I interpreting it completely wrong ?
You are almost certainly thinking of Zhou Enlai and the rude incident being refereed to that of the 1954 Geneva conference. At the conference Zhou Enlai held his hand out to the American secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who was an ardent anti-Communist. Dulles openly refused to shake Zhou's hand, exclaiming "I cannot!" and walked away, whereas Zhou simply shrugged. In 1972 when Nixon visited China to open diplomatic relationship between the PRC and the US, Nixon exited his plane with his hand outstretched to Zhou as to erase the insult that was given almost 20 years ago.