The absence of a nincompoop like Biden from this or any other conference worldwide is a matter for celebration. If he attended the meeting he would probably assume that Prayut was a Christian with a name like that.
But fear not, he is sending the brilliant VICE president to do the heavy lifting, the woman who just this week referred to the Republic of NORTH Korea as having been in an alliance with the US since 1953. She uttered these breathtaking words at the DMZ, which, one would think, might have helped her to distinguish between North and South.