LONDON - Rishi Sunak on Sunday promised to get tough on China if he becomes Britain's next prime minister, calling the Asian superpower the"number one threat" to domestic and global security.
The Daily Mail, which has come out for Foreign Secretary Truss in the race to succeed Boris Johnson, called that"the endorsement that nobody wanted". Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 would be used to help combat Chinese espionage, and he would look to build"Nato-style" international co-operation to tackle Chinese threats in cyberspace. He would also study the case for banning Chinese acquisitions of key British assets, including strategically sensitive tech firms.
"Enough is enough. For too long, politicians in Britain and across the West have rolled out the red carpet and turned a blind eye to China's nefarious activity and ambitions.Sunak's tough-talking will doubtless please China hawks in the Tory ranks, who have repeatedly pushed Johnson to stand up more to Beijing.
Yet British government policy when both Sunak and Truss were in Johnson's cabinet has warned about China before. In March last year, its integrated review of security, defence and foreign policy called China"the biggest state-based threat to the UK's economic security".
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