White House still all at sea over China

IT'S not a secret that members of the Foreign Establishment in Washington cannot stand President Donald Trump.

Pundits and think-tankers who continually assert their commitment to traditional internationalist principles, bash the man who ran for the presidency under the "America First" slogan, as a protectionist and an isolationist, warning that he wanted to destroy the liberal international order.

So as they followed Mr Trump's 12-day excursion to Asia, the talking heads on television and the newspaper columnists blasted their nemesis who was travelling through the Asian capitals.