Liz Truss
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Liz Truss in Taiwan calls for ‘economic Nato’ to challenge China
Former British PM says Taiwan is ‘on the front line of the global battle for freedom’ during trip that China h…
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Chinese embassy calls Liz Truss’s trip to Taiwan a ‘dangerous political stunt’
Former prime minister will challenge Rishi Sunak to deliver on rhetoric about Beijing being a ‘threat’ to UKLi…
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Beijing-backed Chinese language schools in UK to be replaced with teachers from Taiwan
MPs in talks with Taiwan to help phase out Confucius Institutes as relations between the countries worsenA gro…
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Xi Jinping hails China’s rule over Hong Kong on 25th anniversary of handover
Chinese president says ‘one country, two systems’ will endure and democracy flourishes after unprecedented unp…
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Chinese invasion of Taiwan ‘would be catastrophic miscalculation’
Trade should be directed at countries who can be trusted, says British foreign secretary Liz TrussChina would …
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UK calls for extra vigilance on China ahead of Nato summit
Boris Johnson and Liz Truss among those saying Ukraine war highlights potential Chinese threat to TaiwanBoris …
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UK urged to act after UN panel rules detention of Briton in India ‘arbitrary’
Jagtar Singh Johal has been detained since 2017 and allegedly tortured, accused of helping to fund assassinati…
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China says Nato has ‘messed up Europe’ and warns over role in Asia-Pacific
In response to British foreign secretary’s warning that Beijing must ‘play by the rules’, ministry of foreign …
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UN donor conference falls billions short of $4.4bn target to help Afghanistan
Conference raises only $2.44bn as Russian foreign minister says west is responsible for country’s humanitarian…
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India defends buying discounted Russian oil despite appeal by Truss
Foreign secretary urges democracies to join in applying sanctions to Russia after Ukraine invasionIndia’s exte…
- Defence policy, Foreign policy, India, Liz Truss, Narendra Modi, Politics, Russia, South and Central Asia, Trade policy, UK news, Ukraine, World news
Liz Truss’s India visit made awkward by presence of Russian counterpart
Foreign secretary wants Narendra Modi to loosen ties with Russia – but Sergei Lavrov is also visitingLiz Truss…
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Russia-Ukraine crisis a ‘dangerous moment for the world’, warns Truss
UK foreign secretary says invasion by Putin could embolden Iran and China to expand their ambitionsUkraine cri…
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Biden rattles his sabre at Putin … but it’s Xi he really wants to scare
Tub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russi…
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Gordon Brown calls on Liz Truss to help raise funds for Afghanistan
Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid• The…
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Truss bills UK G7 meeting as a show of western unity against China and Russia
Foreign secretary says summit is a ‘chance to show a united front against malign behaviour’A new show of weste…