TOKYO — Former British prime minister Liz Truss will call on Friday (Feb 17) for Taiwan to be given more arms and for the Group of Seven nations to agree a coordinated package of sanctions against China if there is an escalation of military tensions around the island. In her first speech since she was forced out of office last...
Former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss delivers a speech at a symposium of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China , in Tokyo, Japan on Feb 17, 2023.TOKYO — Former British prime minister Liz Truss will call on Friday for Taiwan to be given more arms and for the Group of Seven nations to agree a coordinated package of sanctions against China if there is an escalation of military tensions around the island.
Truss will say there are people who argue that "the rise of a totalitarian China" is inevitable and "standing up to this regime is a hopeless task" but she rejects this "fatalism". 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.
Truss will appear 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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