More questions than answers in Trump's Asian summitry

Despite president's diplomatic drama, US interests will likely, in the end, decide policy

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Trump met his buddy Kim for a photo op. Nothing else changed. © AP

U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped up the most successful diplomatic mission of his presidency, restarting stalled trade talks with China and reviving denuclearization negotiations in a historic first visit to North Korea.

Or perhaps not. Instead, Trump may have sold out vital U.S. interests for the sake of Twitter bragging rights and photo ops with authoritarian rulers like China's Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

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