{"id":396824,"date":"2019-02-22T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/desperate-times-british-diplomacy-aint-what-it-used-to-be-video-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T16:47:07","slug":"desperate-times-british-diplomacy-aint-what-it-used-to-be-video-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/desperate-times-british-diplomacy-aint-what-it-used-to-be-video-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate times \u2013 British diplomacy ain\u2019t what it used to be (VIDEO) \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.02\/thumbnail\/5c6ff475fc7e933b148b4590.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Britain appears to be experimenting with a new form of diplomacy involving desperation, a patronizing tone, and making threats which it\u2019s unable to back up.  The results are mixed so far.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s constant voyages back and forth to be rejected by Brussels over Brexit are familiar to most people who are paying attention. However, in recent weeks, other frontline government ministers have managed to upset staunch ally Japan, and outrage China with empty threats to such an extent that Beijing cancelled desperately needed trade discussions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDYQwW4nC_k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So ICYMI takes a closer look at this golden age of British diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more, follow #ICYMI on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ICYMIvideo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICYMIvideo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/icymivideo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdgFmrDeP9nWj_eDKW6j9kQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/452172-icymi-british-diplomacy-williamson\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain appears to be experimenting with a new form of diplomacy involving desperation, a patronizing tone, and making threats which it\u2019s unable to back up. The results are mixed so far. Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s constant voyages back and forth to be rejected by Brussels over Brexit are familiar to most people who are paying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}