{"id":233007,"date":"2025-07-02T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233007\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T21:35:10","slug":"indias-licence-raj-offers-america-important-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233007\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Licence Raj offers America important lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Jawaharlal Nehru, India\u2019s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America\u2019s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was an erudite product of Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge; Donald Trump, for all his expensive education, is ultimately a rough-and-tumble graduate of New York real estate. A freedom fighter before becoming prime minister, Nehru spent nine years in British-run jails having campaigned against imperial rule; Mr Trump\u2019s tangles with the law have involved hush money for a porn star. Nevertheless, Nehru\u2019s Fabian socialism\u2014a patrician distrust of commerce mixed with an intellectual love of scientific progress\u2014means his views on trade are, many years later, mirrored by Mr Trump\u2019s America-first instincts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jawaharlal Nehru, India\u2019s first prime minister, and Donald Trump, America\u2019s president, do not share many similarities. Nehru was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,4829,1700,1366,7128,391,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-columns","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-finance-economics","12":"tag-free-exchange","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114785794792927475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}