Joe Biden Kicks Off ASEAN Summit by Getting Host Country Wrong


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President Joe Biden's Southeast Asia trip got off to a rough start when he mistakenly thanked the "prime minister of Columbia," rather than Cambodia, for chairing a major summit. The president is currently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, ahead of a visit to Bali in Indonesia for a G20 meeting next week. Speaking at a meeting in Phnom Penh, Biden said: "Now that we are back together in Cambodia I look forward to building even stronger progress than we've already made. And I want to thank the prime minister of Columbia's leadership...