Try not to read too much into it; it's just about an affair on a biz trip. Painted JP in a completely different shade which i can't say i'm enjoying. Kinda stereotypical, but I guess that's how a foreign culture always appears to us. Came to think about it, it's so Freud.
They make their rules to be broken. The United States has broken every rule it has ever made. From its first treaty with France to every treaty with us, to their last treaty with Iran. They only hold others to their rules. They make war when they want, where they want, they take what they want, then they make rules to keep you from taking it back.