RealClearPolitics reports:

Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, emerged in Asia on Wednesday to share her views from “Main Street U.S.A” with a group of high-flying global investors.

In her first trip to the region, the former Alaska governor addressed an annual conference of investors in Hong Kong in what was billed as a wide- ranging talk about governance, economics and U.S and Asian affairs.

“I’m going to call it like I see it and I will share with you candidly a view right from Main Street, Main Street, U.S.A.,” Palin told a room full of asset managers and other finance professionals, according to a video of part of the speech obtained by The Associated Press. “And how perhaps my view of Main Street — representing perhaps a lot of other people — how that affects you, your business.”

Agence France-Presse reported that Palin’s speech “divided an international Hong Kong audience of financial big-hitters at her first speech outside North America yesterday with some leaving in disgust.”

A US delegate leaving early said: “It was awful, we couldn’t stand it any longer.”

A European delegate said Palin was “brilliant.”

“She said America was spending a lot of money and it was a temporary solution. Normal people are having to pay more and more but things don’t get better.”