Pak PM's 'Cringeworthy' Flattery For Trump; Modi's Wise Snub To Summit

This special report focuses on the diplomatic stir caused by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's effusive praise of Donald Trump at the Sharm El Sheikh peace summit and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strategic decision to abstain from the event. Analyst Raymond Vickrey Jr. stated, ‘I think that you have to recognize, as our former governor in Virginia once said, who's a neurologist, that our president is a narcissistic maniac.’ The discussion, with insights from former Foreign Secretary Kamal Sibal and CSIS's Raymond Vickrey Jr., deconstructs Sharif's 'cringeworthy' flattery, including a renewed call for a Nobel Prize for Trump, and Trump's subsequent indirect snub. It also analyses why PM Modi sending Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh was a 'wise' move, successfully avoiding a potentially embarrassing, Trump-orchestrated diplomatic engagement with Pakistan on the world stage.