Trump and his 'crack' staff need to do their homework when it comes to Asia

CNN

Donald Trump poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 

DONALD TRUMP and his staffers evidently have a hard time distinguishing one Asian from another.

During Trump's embarrassing G20 dive, a White House news release misidentified Xi Jinping as the leader of “the Republic of China.”

The Republic of China is what Taiwan calls itself. Xi is the president of the People's Republic of China. Oops!

China's Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China received an apology on Monday, (July 10) from the United States. Geng told reporters in Beijing that U.S. officials described the mistake as a technical error.

That explanation might be OK if it was the only mistake last weekend. Earlier the same day as the China gaff, they incorrectly referred to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as “President Abe of Japan” in a news release detailing Trump’s meeting with the Japanese leader. However, Trump did correctly refer to the leader of Japan as prime minister during his remarks.

Then, Trump in one of his infamous tweets, he also mixed up Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong with Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

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Trump isolates America from the rest of the world (except Russia)

Donald Trump sits alone while the world's leaders talk with each other.

ALAS, the G20 is now the G19.

The United States has abdicated any leadership role in the community of nations. The meeting in Germany of the 20 top economic powerhouses in the world underscored the futility of Donald Trump's America First campaign. 

As Trump was complaining about the "bad deals" the United States have been part of, such as NATO and NAFTA and the scuttling of a similar agreement with Asian and Pacific nations, Europe and Japan signed a major trade treaty that in the past, the U.S. would have been a partner.

While Trump walked away from the Paris climate agreement, 19 of the nations -- including Russia and China -- were signing on the dotted line to reduce the factors that is hastening of the melting of the polar icecaps affecting climates and shorelines around the world.

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While the world's -- not the just the U.S. -- intelligence agencies confirm Russian meddling in America's election process, Trump accepts without question the denial by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, Trump wants to let the fox into the henhouse by teaming up with Russia to create a cyber watchdog to prevent any future Internet interference. Really?

The commentary below by Australian commentator Chris Uhlman went viral worldwide. He sums up what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump. Sad.