{"id":820182,"date":"2025-01-16T05:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/selling-britain-to-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T05:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:11:54","slug":"selling-britain-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/selling-britain-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Britain to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2012-05-03T15:49:34.000Z\"> May 3rd 2012<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-body-id=\"cp2\">\n<p>By Bagehot<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"paragraph\">MY <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/britain\/2012\/05\/05\/travels-with-a-salesman\">PRINT column this week<\/a> reports on William Hague&#8217;s recent visit to south-east Asia and what it reveals about the Foreign Secretary&#8217;s vision for British foreign policy. The essence of British diplomacy Hague-style, I suggest, can be summed up in a phrase I watched him utter in a crowded lecture theatre in Hanoi: friendliness mixed with self-interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s100.copyright.com\/AppDispatchServlet?publisherName=economist&#038;publication=economist&#038;title=Selling%20Britain%20to%20the%20world&#038;publicationDate=2012-05-03&#038;contentID=%2Fcontent%2Fmsmodn3b1am32liv93jnp7otf2gasv8p&#038;type=A&#038;orderBeanReset=TRUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" data-analytics=\"end_of_article:reuse_this_content\"><span>Reuse this content<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/bagehots-notebook\/2012\/05\/03\/selling-britain-to-the-world\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tami Pekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 3rd 2012 By Bagehot MY PRINT column this week reports on William Hague&#8217;s recent visit to south-east Asia and what it reveals about the Foreign Secretary&#8217;s vision for British foreign policy. The essence of British diplomacy Hague-style, I suggest, can be summed up in a phrase I watched him utter in a crowded lecture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29644,2589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-selling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}