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Rishi Sunak has indicated he will abandon his predecessor Liz Truss’s push to recategorise China as a “threat” to the UK.
The Prime Minister twice declined to endorse Ms Truss’s change, which had been due to be adopted in the rewriting of the UK’s foreign policy strategy called the “integrated review”.
Mr Sunak also refused to endorse sending weapons to Taiwan amid growing hostility from China, an idea which Ms Truss had backed during the summer Tory leadership campaign.
The developments reflect what initially appears to be Mr Sunak’s less confrontational approach to Beijing compared to Ms Truss, who lasted just 49 days as prime minister.