Rishi Sunak has warned that China poses an ‘epoch-defining challenge’ to the security of the UK.
China poses an ‘epoch-defining challenge’ to the security of the UK and the wider world,The prime minister pledged to continue ‘engaging’ with Beijing but warned ‘our approach must evolve’ to deal with its growing alliance withThey marked the sternest tone toward China taken by Mr Sunak since his campaign for Tory leadership, when he called it the ‘biggest long-term threat to Britain’.
It also accuses premier Xi Jinping of overseeing a continuing drift toward ‘authoritarianism and assertiveness’. ‘But wherever the Chinese Communist Party’s actions and stated intent threaten the UK’s interests, we will take swift and robust action to protect them.’ The government now has an ‘aspiration’ to raise it to 2.5% of national income ‘as financial and economic circumstances allow’, it added.
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