09 July, 2017
The days she was referring to were the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Brussels and the G-7 meeting in Italy, in which Trump publicly declined to endorse NATO's doctrine of domestic defense as well as its position on global trade, Russian aggression, and fighting climate change.
He will commemorate the horrors of World War II in Poland, his aides told The Washington Post, on Thursday, when he is scheduled to speak at the city's Warsaw Uprising Monument on Krasinski Square. Scores of people who lined darkened roads waved American and Polish flags and recorded video of Trump's motorcade as it sped him and his wife, Melania, to their hotel. He also was meeting with the heads of a dozen countries bordered by the Baltic, Adriatic and Black seas.
Trump tweeted indignantly on Wednesday.
Trump "sees potential benefits for the U.S.in this meeting", Duda said.
"Trade between China and North Korea grew nearly 40% in the first quarter".
Trump's plane touched down in Warsaw on Wednesday night and the White House says he will use the stopover to showcase his commitment to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which he once called "obsolete", a likely effort to patch up relations after the tense alliance summit in May.
Trump will meet one-on-one with German Chancellor Angela Merkel immediately after he arrives in Germany on Thursday.
Trump is also under huge political pressure back home to raise the election meddling issue during his session with Putin, the logistics of which were still being sorted out by the White House and the Kremlin midweek.
A recent Pew Research Center survey of attitudes toward Trump in more than three dozen countries found fewer than 3 in 10 respondents expressing confidence in his ability to do the right thing on global affairs.
US President Donald Trump meets eastern North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies in Warsaw amid expectations he will reaffirm Washington's commitment to counter threats from Russian Federation after unnerving them at a summit more than a month ago.
Before Trump arrives in Germany he'll make a 15-hours-long stop in Poland, a country where he's likely to receive a positive welcome from a conservative government and a largely pro-American population. Last week, White House officials were angered when a video feed of US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaking to a Berlin economic conference about the trade dispute cut off mid-speech.
"After his disastrous trip to Brussels and Taormina, friendly pictures with European leaders and cheering crowds at his public speech could help Trump fix his image at home", said Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations. That states an attack on an ally is an attack on all organization members. This time, Trump will use stops in Poland and Germany to try to pull off the tricky balancing act of improving ties with Moscow at a time of particularly fraught relations while also presenting the U.S.as a check against Russian aggression.
