Britain casts China as an ‘epoch-defining challenge’ to world order in updated policy framework
Only first released two years ago, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain’s Integrated Review had been updated to take account of events, with the hardening of language and positioning towards Beijing and Moscow.
“Since then, Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, weaponization of energy and food supplies and irresponsible nuclear rhetoric, combined with China’s more aggressive stance in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, are threatening to create a world defined by danger, disorder and division.” The unveiling of the update has been choreographed to coincide with Sunak’s visit to San Diego to agree the next steps in a landmark defence agreement, AUKUS, with U.S. President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Of Britain’s extra defence spending, 3 billion pounds will go towards nuclear projects, including help for Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, part of efforts to counter China in the Indo-Pacific.
“It has pursued rapid and opaque military modernization with huge new investments, militarized disputed islands in the South China Sea, and refused to renounce the use of force to achieve its objectives with regard to Taiwan.” While saying tensions in the Indo-Pacific “could have global consequences greater than the conflict in Ukraine”, Britain said Russia still remained the most acute threat.
On the other hand, they have expressed concern at support for Russia being potentially offered by China and Iran.
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