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At least some of this praise seems to have come at the behest of Trump himself, according to U.S. officials, suggesting that the American president is eager for a diplomatic win ahead of unfavorable odds in midterm elections.
An all-sizzle-and-no-steak deal of this kind would be classic Trump, giving him the optics of a diplomatic "win" while doing little to reduce the threat posed by Kim's nuclear program.
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who just days earlier had described Mr. Obama as seeming "uncomfortable" in the role of commander in chief, said the president may have turned a "muddled" and "clunky" foreign policy response into a tentative diplomatic win.
Trump, who has a history of giving opponents insulting nicknames, loves calling Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, "Rocket Man". Nikki Haley, our U.N. ambassador, argued that the president's speech was a diplomatic win because "every other international community" has now started calling Kim "Rocket Man," too.
Now it will be up to Vice President Pence and Deputy Prime Minister Aso to translate this initial diplomatic win into a meaningful economic agenda, and for Secretaries James Mattis and Rex Tillerson to assume leadership over the alliance agenda.
U.S. President Donald Trump was non-committal when subsequently asked about the prospects for the summit — which had the potential to be the biggest diplomatic win of his scandal-plagued presidency — saying: "We'll have to see".
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It is a diplomatic win-win, where all parties can claim they were right.
For now this could be a diplomatic win-win.
In the words of one official, the calculation was that the trip was a diplomatic win-win: "Engage him... or show him to be a fraud". During the visit, Mr Adams was not allowed to travel more than 25 miles (40km) outside New York and was banned from fundraising.
Ásturias, who also enjoyed a diplomatic career, won the Nobel prize for literature in 1967.
President Obama's understandable desire to restore diplomatic harmony won out over the urgent necessity for coordinated international stimulus.
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