Takeover bid?
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
But there was a slight problem. Biden had misread; the US is giving Pacific Islands only US$40m.
That wasn’t the only gaffe corrected on the official transcript released by the White House. He failed to read the acronym for the Pacific Islands Infrastructure Initiative.
And a few minutes later, he also announced a new agreement signed with ‘Puala’; he meant the tiny Pacific state, Palau.
