On the heels of President Joe Biden’s comprehensive exchange with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Daily Beast issued a stark reminder to any Americans thinking about hopping back into bed with Donald Trump.
“Biden ... in both his press conference following the Xi meeting and in his remarks throughout the summit, showed a complete, confident mastery of an enormous range of issues," David Rothkopf writes.
“That’s a far cry from Trump’s flaccid performance.”
Rothkopf’s opinion piece published Friday heaped praise on Biden’s handling of diplomatic relations with China both as a Vice President and the nation’s commander-in-chief.
The Daily Beast writer celebrated Biden’s successful bid to improve communications with the powerful nation, his mastery of complex international politics, and actionable gains on key issues that include resumed military-to-military communications and joint efforts to curtail the spread of fentanyl.
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“[Biden] was a gracious host. He laid out an agenda that had been carefully negotiated and orchestrated by his excellent diplomatic team,” Rothkopf wrote. “In short, Biden did one other thing that Trump never mastered. He was presidential.”
The author argues that things would have gone very differently had the nation been represented by Trump: A golf course would likely have been involved, as would strange praise for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and tensions over the former president's racist moniker for the coronavirus.
There was however one element of the diplomatic exchange the U.S. could not have escaped.
“I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: ‘He’s a dictator,’” Rothkopf quipped. “The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.”
Read the full piece here.
