Slap-Hug Diplomacy: Trump at the UN

① Even superpowers cannot by themselves cut rogue states off from the world.

② That helps to explain why American allies are hoping, fingers crossed, to hear from a reasonably constructive President Donald Trump in his first address to the United Nations today.

③ Atop Mr Trump's in-tray is the need to isolate North Korea and slow that country's sprint for nuclear-tipped missiles.

④ He is expected to denounce Iran for breaching at least the spirit of a nuclear-arms pact with world powers that—Team Trump insists—was also meant to curb Iranian trouble-making across the Middle East.

⑤ As Mr Trump, still a swaggering nationalist at heart, pushes other countries to help sanction and quarantine America's foes, he cannot avoid a measure of coalition-building.

⑥ Listen as the president "slaps the right people, hugs the right people", predicted his UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, previewing the speech.

⑦ That sounds a lot like diplomacy, albeit Trump-style.

生詞好句

slap /slap/: n. 打耳光；拍打

rogue /r??ɡ/ state: 流氓國(guó)家

ally /?al??/: n. 同盟國(guó)

atop /??t?p/: pre. 在......頂上

in-tray /??n tre?/: n. 文件盤

sprint /spr?nt/: n. 短距離全速跑

nuclear-tipped missile /?m?s??l/: n. 核彈頭導(dǎo)彈

denounce /d??na?ns/: vt. 譴責(zé)

breach /bri?t?/: vt. 違反

swaggering /?swaɡ?r??/: adj. 大搖大擺的；趾高氣昂的

quarantine /?kw?r?nti?n/: vt. 隔離

"We must speak our minds openly,

debate our disagreements

honestly, but always

pursue solidarity."

Donald Trump