Rishi Sunak treads fine line on China in foreign policy refresh

With this strategy, the U.K. is “clearly signaling” that is seeking to be part of the new partnerships developing in the Indo-Pacific, said Veerle Nouwens, senior research fellow on international security studies at the RUSI think tank. “It looks as if the Indo-Pacific tilt is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future,” she said. “We’ve seen so much being done in the Indo-Pacific over the past few years since the initial review, that this seems to me like a continuation of policy rather than a radical change.”