Government preference --- Your right. Embassies needs to serve both. Just to add a few, if the diplomacy is tied to state actors and state interests then economic diplomacy tends to be limited to the use of traditional diplomatic tools to achieve economic goal of state. With globalised economy, countries needs to open up other avenues of cooperation to allow increasing flow of capital, trade, services, technologies etc.

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