Selling Britain to the world

By Bagehot

MY PRINT column this week reports on William Hague’s recent visit to south-east Asia and what it reveals about the Foreign Secretary’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.

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