April 6, 2021 last updated 14:1 ET Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, left, and Kishida Fumio, Japan’s foreign affairs minister at the time, in Tokyo, July, 21, 2017 (AP photo by Koji Sasahara).
Japan Makes a Model Partner for a ‘Global Britain’
Ever since the 2016 referendum on Brexit, the U.K. has been busy reimagining its place in the world. Now, with the umbilical cord between the U.K. and the European Union finally cut, London will have to put into practice its long-stated ambitions for a “Global Britain.” The British government’s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, published on March 16, offers the first official and comprehensive expression of how it plans to do so.
Boris Johnson to Visit India in April to Unlock Opportunities in Indo-Pacific
Downing Street said the visit, Johnsonâs first major international tour after the UK s exit from the EU, would unlock the opportunities in the strategic Indo-Pacific region.
Britain s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen during a meeting with fundraisers for the Royal British Legion Downing Street in London, Britain
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World16/Mar/2021
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India at the end of April on his first major international tour following the UK’s exit from the European Union, Downing Street has announced, as Britain seeks to “unlock” the opportunities in the strategic Indo-Pacific region.
White Guard Memorandum On Organizing An Uprising In Kronstadt.
Already pretty quickly after the events in Kronstadt we had absolutely solid proof the leaders and organizers of the mutiny were White Guardists or were working with White Guardists. And now with the archival materials, we have absolutely mountains of further evidence. If anyone says otherwise, they are wilfully ignorant or lying.
HOW THE MUTINY WAS ORGANIZED
In 1921 the country was in ruins after years of WWI and civil war. Fuel and food were always extremely scarce. As long as the civil war lasted, the population tolerated all these hardships. They understood it was inevitable in the war. However, in 1921 the war was coming to an end. Massive amounts of soldiers were sent home from the Red Army or at least taken away from battle. This created disturbances as people were no longer focused on fighting the White Army, and there were lots of badly adjusted jobless soldiers wandering around. Peasants also began opposing t
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Tom Cargill appointed as new Wilton Park Chief Executive Officer
New CEO announced as Wilton Park, a global forum for strategic discussion, celebrates its 75th anniversary.
Mr Cargill, who brings diverse experience from across the public and private sectors, will lead the organisation to continue its vital role of finding innovative solutions to tackle global issues and support British foreign policy priorities.
This will include shaping new relationships with the EU and other international partners in 2021, as well as continuing to partner with a range of actors, multilateral bodies and like-minded countries to promote key discussions on climate change, sustainable development, conflict prevention, human rights, and support for a rules-based international system.
How the UK and China’s love affair faded
British hopes for trade, which reached their peak in 2015, have been eclipsed by worries over national security and human rights abuses
By Patrick Wintour / The Guardian
In 2003, the British Cabinet Office decided to allow Chinese state-backed Huawei Technologies to start supplying British multinational telecommunications company BT Group for the first time. Nobody bothered to put a note on the security implications into the red box of the then-British secretary of state for trade and industry Patrica Hewitt. A minor discussion, solely on the competition implications, did take place.
Then-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove, used to daily cooperation with BT to secure wire taps, was shocked and concerned when he heard of the plan, but was told: “It is nothing to do with you. These are issues we can control.”