Once again, President Barack Obama is being criticized for bowing when he met a foreign leader.

ABC News‘ Jake Tapper ran the bow past “an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama” who said it is not unprecedented for an American president to bow when meeting a Japanese emperor (Nixon did so in 1971), but that Obama’s much deeper bend was too low.

Read more at NPR News.

Speaking to a group of Chinese students in Shanghai, US President Barack Obama said he’d never used Twitter because he’s too clumsy to type on the phone.

The question he was asked, however, was far more important than his typing skills. In China, many of the services we use everyday – Twitter (Twitter), Facebook (Facebook), MySpace (MySpace) – are either heavily censored or completely blocked. One of the Shanghai students asked Obama “Should we be able to use Twitter freely?”

Read more at Mashable.

Tags: Barack Obama, China, Facebook, Shanghai, Twitter, United States

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