Hello, and welcome to Dateline London The Programme which brings together International Correspondents filing from the uk with the best of bbc expertise. Im geeta guru murthy. This week, we ask what is britains role in the world . With a huge moment of change as we battle a Global Pandemic, and brexit has become real, there is renewed interest in what the Uks International future looks like. A new government report, called Global Britain, focuses on the indo pacific suggesting closer ties with india, japan and australia. What does this mean for the relationship with china . A question faced at the moment by president biden. Meanwhile, nations all over the world continue to grapple with their vaccination programmes. What do the diplomatic skirmishes over covid tell us about where power lies today . With me are Isobel Hilton, founder of china dialogue, jeffrey koffman, a us canadian journalist and formerly War Correspondent for abc news, and the bbc s chief international correspondent, l
Here and author of a much read biography of labours post war prime minister, clement attlee. Seen in that light, the focus on nato, a renewed comittment to nuclear and a tilt to the indo pacific, with more interest in space, cyber and technology are perhaps unsurprising. Politically, can Global Britain be made to chime with the governments other key mantra of levelling up . And what about china friend orfoe, or both . Isobel, are we already in a sort of new cold war . Well, we certainly have elements of a cold war, but unlike the original cold war we are dealing with not the soviet union, but a country that has the second biggest economy in the world and is a huge trading partner, so its more complicated than that. But we are in a systemic confrontation, and a series of reports from the us, the eu, various western democratic partners have identified this strategic contest that we are certainly engaged in. The difficulty that all of these countries are facing is, how do you pursue that
Hello, and welcome to Dateline London The Programme which brings together International Correspondents filing from the uk with the best of bbc expertise. Im geeta guru murthy. This week, we ask what is britains role in the world . With a huge moment of change as we battle a Global Pandemic, and brexit has become real, there is renewed interest in what the Uks International future looks like. A new government report, called Global Britain, focuses on the indo pacific suggesting closer ties with india, japan and australia. What does this mean for the relationship with china . A question faced at the moment by president biden. Meanwhile, nations all over the world continue to grapple with their vaccination programmes. What do the diplomatic skirmishes over covid tell us about where power lies today . With me are Isobel Hilton, founder of china dialogue, jeffrey koffman, a us canadian journalist and formerly War Correspondent for abc news, and the bbc s chief international correspondent, l
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