UK to shift foreign policy focus to Indo-Pacific in post-Brexit review
India is categorised as an international actor of growing importance in the review, which commits to achieving an Enhanced Trade Partnership this year.
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LONDON: The UK must do more to adapt to major changes in the world and therefore shift its foreign policy focus to the Indo-Pacific region, with countries such as India, Japan and Australia, a year-long of the country s post-Brexit Global Britain vision concluded on Tuesday.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who formally launched the Global Britain in a competitive age: The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy document in the House of Commons, underlined this so-called Indo-Pacific tilt by confirming his visit to India next month, an application for partner status of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) economic union and the Royal Navy warship Queen Elizabet
Boris Johnson is to set out a new policy framework of “increased international activism” to counter growing threats to the established global order from countries like Russia.
The Prime Minister will on Tuesday unveil the results of the Government’s year-long Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy – billed as the most radical reassessment of Britain’s place in the world since the end of the Cold War.
The 100-page document – entitled Global Britain in a Competitive Age – will map out plans for the armed forces to adopt the latest cutting-edge technologies such as drones and artificial intelligence (AI), with a new focus on the future battlefields of space and cyber.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who will formally release the review in the House of Commons later on Tuesday, is to activate the so-called Indo-Pacific tilt with a visit to India at the end of next month, an application for partner status of the Association of South East Asian nations (ASEAN) economic union and the Royal Navy warship Queen Elizabeth Carrier deployment to the region.