Biden Commits Gaffe During Summit in Asia

U.S. President Joe Biden named the wrong country when he was thanking a top official during a summit in Asia on Nov. 12.
“Now that we’re back together here in Cambodia, I look forward to building even stronger progress than we’ve already made, and I want to thank the Prime Minister of Colombia for his leadership as ASEAN chair and for hosting all of us,” Biden said.
Biden was talking about Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia and chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Colombia is in South America.
No representatives of Colombia were at the ASEAN event, which was taking place in Phnom Penh….}

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