Liz Truss will make her first foreign trip as prime minister this week to the UN general assembly in New York. She already has plenty of experience in global diplomacy, but has sometimes ruffled feathers with her approach. How is she viewed by the world’s media and governments and will she be able to win over her critics abroad?

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Sarah Baxter, director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting, Stony Brook University, New York
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