April 13, 2017, Evanston, IL……. Apparently, Trump came into his first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in early April, convinced that China could simply eliminate the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear program.
However, after listening for 10 minutes to President Xi patiently explain Chinese-Korean history to Trump —” I realized it’s not so easy,” the president told the Wall Street Journal. “I felt pretty strongly that they’d had a tremendous power [over] North Korea. … But it’s not what you would think.”
Unfortunately, Trump seems to have required the leader of China to explain basic facts to him that he could have Googled, or at least asked one of the many US government North Korea experts about.
Even more unfortunate, Trump is getting his information about East Asian affairs from the leader of America’s largest rival in the region.
Shame on Trump and shame on our nation for electing a person to do a job, they are totally unprepared to do!