Foreign diplomacy conducted with the number
one goal of raising one's profile at
home. When a need to declare victory in foreign negotiations overrides the need to actually achieve any real foreign policy objectives. Daniel Russel, former President Obama's senior
Asia Director at the National Security Council, speaking of the upcoming summit with
North Korea after NK's categorical refusal to abandon their nuclear program: "President Trump has forged a new category of international relations that I would call 'diplotainment' and the Singapore meeting is going to demonstrate diplotainment at its pinnacle."