The U.S.’s special-relationship partner, the United Kingdom, tweeted an animated image of actress and activist Emma Watson, looking bemused, or perhaps sheepish, verging on mortified, as part of its Fourth of July greeting to the country that today marks its independence from Britain. Other countries took a more sober approach. And the U.K., in fact, followed up that teasing tweet ...

... with something more straightforwardly diplomatic but still lighthearted.