Britain s Cultural Kowtow

You would surely kowtow.

Kowtow or Cooperation in Asia?

Didn't you kowtow to the old regime?

No, I don't kowtow to no mattress company.

They kowtow and lie, playing innocent the whole time.

Come on, I want to see you perform a kowtow...

Not surprisingly, Vladimir Putin s Russia was among the first to kowtow to China s Diktat.

And Iran simply wants to show once again that it will not kowtow to the Great Satan.

And, as the rich kowtow to the authorities to protect their wealth, a strong check on official arbitrariness disappears.

Their members kowtow to CEOs, do not examine management decisions closely, and, with very few exceptions, rubber stamp compensation requests.

It has chosen to ride roughshod over its neighbours and blackmail them, and force them to kneel nay, kowtow to its demands.

Are there no limits, or does today s China conceive of itself as a restored Middle Kingdom, to whom the entire world must kowtow?

They view the Democrats and the Republicans alike as obstacles to change, drowning out the voices of the people as they kowtow to special interests.

Bowing in China and Taiwan The kowtow was traditionally the highest sign of reverence in Han Chinese culture but its use has been extremely rare since the collapse of Imperial China.