Effective international diplomacy requires professional preparation and qualified personnel, as demonstrated by the lack of professional diplomats and sherpas during the Trump visit to Beijing, where the summit was organized at the last minute with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent conducting last-minute trade negotiations in South Korea the day before the summit.
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Is American diplomacy crumbling? Ambassador Chas Freeman weighs in.Added:
And uh the United States is totally incompetent at it.
Do you know that um we have at 115 embassies now without ambassadors?
Uh really out of 182, I believe. Uh we just don't we No, there was no professional diplomat involved in the Trump visit to Beijing as far as I can tell.
There were no sherpas preparing the summit.
Uh it was thrown together at the last minute. I mean uh the the Scott [clears throat] Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, went to South Korea for a last-minute meeting with his Chinese counterpart on trade issues.
This was the day before the Trump arrival in Beijing. I mean, this is amateur hour.
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