UK Urges China to Explain ‘Biggest’ Peacetime Military Build-Up
- Cleverly sees risk of ‘tragic miscalculation’ in Indo-Pacific
- Foreign secretary makes keynote speech about China on Tuesday
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UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will call on China to be more transparent about its military expansion in the Indo-Pacific in order to avoid a “tragic miscalculation” over the future of Taiwan.
It’s “wrong” to declare a new cold war and seek to isolate China, Britain’s top diplomat will say in a speech at Mansion House in London on Tuesday. But the foreign secretary will also condemn Chinese oppression in Xinjiang and its dismantling of freedoms in Hong Kong, as well as questioning its military motives.