White House spokesman Tommy Vietor told ABC News that “any suggestion that this was an insult to the United States is just flat wrong.
Huh. Then I guess that it is tragically unfortunate that Chinese nationalists are whooping it up over slipping that one past the protocol people.
I'm not sure whether I prefer our government's people to be too stubborn to admit an obvious mistake or too stupid to realize America was insulted by this incident.
Oh who am I kidding? The White House protocol people probably know all the words and sang along.
UPDATE: Thank you Instapundit for the link. More recent evidence that we don't speak Chinese.
UPDATE: Thank you One Free Korea for the link.