Detail Travels with a Salesman: Bagehot   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8783 (May 2012), page 59. Topik: Diplomacy; Politics; International Relations-UK Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.71 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Blushing lightly, the Vietnamese undergraduate had a question for William Hague. Britain's foreign secretary was in Hanoi, on the first leg of a tour of South-East Asia between April 24th and 27th, and had just made a pitch for local students to continue their education in Britain. An unabashed salesman, Mr Hague reeled off impressive facts. His Oxford college was founded in 1458. One-quarter of the world's 20 leading universities are still British. There are 7,000 Vietnamese students in Britain now, and more are eagerly sought. It was then that a student shyly stood and asked: why? Mr Hague offered a disarmingly honest reply. It's a mixture of friendliness and self-interest, he said: most good things in the world are based on a mixture of those two things. It was quite a British thing to say to a foreigner: candid, self-deprecating and with just a hint of coldness to it, despite being delivered in Mr Hague's warm, Yorkshire-accented baritone. It was also a helpful summary of the foreign secretary's vision for British diplomacy. A decade ago Mr Hague was not much known for diplomacy of any sort. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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