I should point out the biggest appeal of things British, why their flags are popping up around the world: The Westminster System and, specifically, Rule of Law.

The Westminster System: influence comes from below. It's very democratic.
Rule of Law: as opposed to the Roman and Chinese systems of Rule by Law, or the yank system of Rule by Corporations.

Europe is increasingly becoming a Roman Empire type nightmare that people rebelled against so often. China was implementing a Rule of Law by an interesting method: bring in magistrates who had passed judgements on similar cases to give evidence. But... someone sailed a fleet up the Chinese coast, said they can do what they want, bullied and pushed, thus the Chinese response of the Nine Dotted Line, acted the same way to Russia and... here it comes.

NB. Captcha, who on earth calls them 'crosswalks'?