Liz Truss urges Rishi Sunak to explain China as a 'risk' to UK safety

Former prime minister Liz Truss has known as for her successor Rishi Sunak to say China is a "threat" to UK safety.

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Ms Truss was talking in Taiwan's capital Taipei, the place she mentioned that Mr Sunak ought to ship on language he used throughout final summer time's Conservative Party management contest.

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He had described China because the "biggest long-term threat to Britain", in addition to promising to shut all of Beijing's Confucius Institutes within the UK.

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The institutes promote Chinese tradition at universities in addition to in some faculties.

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Ms Truss mentioned: "He was proper and we have to see these insurance policies enacted urgently.

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"The UK's integrated review needs to be amended to state clearly that China is a threat.

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"Confucius Institutes must be closed down instantly. Instead the service may very well be offered by organisations with the help of Hong Kong nationals and Taiwanese nationals who've come to the UK on a free foundation."

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Ms Truss, who lasted simply 44 days in Downing Street, is making what's considered the primary go to of a former British prime minister to Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher within the Nineteen Nineties.

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She additionally warned that the West mustn't work with China and that totalitarian regimes "don't tell the truth".

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"We know what happens to the environment or world health under totalitarian regimes that don't tell the truth - you can't believe a word they say."

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She added that China is "undertaking the biggest military build-up in peacetime history... They have already made their choice about their strategy.

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"The solely alternative now we have is will we appease and accommodate that technique or will we take motion now?"

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Ms Truss's go to comes at a time of rising stress within the area, with China growing strain on Taiwan, which it says should unite with the mainland by pressure if obligatory.

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Taiwan continues to assert independence from China.

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Ms Truss known as for a "more coordinated approach so Taiwan has the defence it needs" within the face of Chinese aggression.

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