Emanuel’s tweets are “not in keeping with the message coming out of this building,” an anonymous White House official told NBC News. Biden administration officials from the National Security Council reportedly reached out to Emanuel’s staff and asked that he stop sending the messages, as they risk undermining the work being done to ease tensions with China. …

“President Xi’s cabinet lineup is now resembling Agatha Christie’s novel And Then There Were None,” Emanuel wrote in the post on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “First, Foreign Minister Qin Gang goes missing, then the Rocket Force commanders go missing, and now Defense Minister Li Shangfu hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks. Who’s going to win this unemployment race? China’s youth or Xi’s cabinet?”

[Rahm Emanuel currently serves as US Ambassador to Japan, a country which probably appreciates Emanuel’s mockery more than Joe Biden does. Or, at least, whoever is running things for President Aphasia these days. — Ed]