UK's Liz Truss and China-Taiwan tensions
TL;DR
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to classify China as a "threat" to UK security during her visit to Taiwan. Truss, who is the first former UK Prime Minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher, drew comparisons between the tensions between China and Taiwan and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She also called for the development of "an economic Nato" to support freedom and proper free enterprise. The Chinese Embassy called Truss's visit "a dangerous political stunt".
- Truss urges Sunak to class China as 'threat' to UK security BBC
- Chinese embassy calls Liz Truss’s trip to Taiwan a ‘dangerous political stunt’ The Guardian
- In Taiwan, former UK PM Truss warns against appeasing China Reuters
- Tsai Ing-wen and Liz Truss are embarrassing each other South China Morning Post
- Liz 'the human hand grenade' Truss throws herself into China diplomacy | Tom Peck The Independent
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