Truss also called for the international community to build Taiwan’s defences. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Friday called for the international community to build Taiwan’s defences and agree a package of coordinated defensive, economic and political measures in support of the island “before it is too late”.Ms Truss told a conference in Japan aimed at coordinating democratic governments’ policies towards the People’s Republic of China that the West should take a tougher approach to the world’s second-largest economy.
She spoke of her regret that Western countries were not quicker and tougher in their action against Moscow when Russia invaded Ukraine in what it calls a “special military operation”.British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing pressure from some within his party to re-classify China as a “threat” instead of a “systemic competitor” in an update to the government’s defence and foreign policy strategy, which is expected to be published next month.
Ms Truss appeared at the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China conference in Tokyo alongside two other former prime ministers, Australia’s Scott Morrison and Belgium’s Guy Verhofstadt.
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