UK Government Likely to Officially Designate China as a 'Threat' Within Days
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] British Prime Minister Liz Truss is officially expected to designate China as a 'threat' to the UK, the British daily The Telegraph reported on the 11th (local time).
This is the first time the UK has regarded China as a threat, and The Telegraph described it as a significant shift in the UK's diplomatic stance.
On the same day, a UK government spokesperson announced that work is underway to revise the 'Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy' announced during Boris Johnson's cabinet in 2021. At that time, the Johnson cabinet defined China as a 'systemic competitor' affecting the entire UK, but Prime Minister Truss is expected to upgrade this designation to a threat.
The Truss cabinet is expected to release the results of the Integrated Review revision within a few days. The revision is anticipated to reflect Prime Minister Truss's view that China poses the greatest long-term threat to the UK's values and way of life.
The ruling Conservative Party in the UK has traditionally maintained a hawkish stance toward China. Former Conservative Party leader Ian Duncan Smith and House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Tugendhat have expressed support for Prime Minister Truss's tough stance on China.
On the same day, the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a specialist intelligence agency for signals intelligence and cyber security, released an analysis suggesting that China's positioning system (GPS) could be used to monitor the international community.
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Jeremy Fleming, Director of GCHQ, stated that China's GPS equivalent, 'BeiDou,' could be used to collect user data from over 120 countries worldwide. BeiDou is a global navigation satellite system launched by China to compete with the US GPS and currently operates the largest number of satellites in the world, exceeding GPS.
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