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Rishi Sunak ditches plan to class China as a ‘threat’ to UK security​

British PM’s comments have angered China hawks in his own party as they await refresh of major foreign policy plan.
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Rishi Sunak has hinted he will abandon plans to declare China a “threat” to national security as part of a major review of British foreign policy.
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Speaking to reporters traveling with him to the G20 summit in Bali, the British prime minister softened his language on Beijing and twice refused to back his predecessor Liz Truss’ plans to elevate China’s status to that of a “threat” in an upcoming refresh of the U.K. government’s foreign and defense priorities.
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Asked whether he would be pushing ahead with Truss’ plan to harden the U.K.’s position, Sunak initially referred to China as a “systemic threat” before hastily correcting himself.
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“My view on China is straightforward,” he said. “I think that China unequivocally poses a systemic threat — well, a systemic challenge — to our values and our interests, and is undoubtedly the biggest state-based threat to our economic security, let me put it that way. That’s how I think about China.”
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Pressed a second time on whether he was dropping the commitment to reclassify China as a threat, Sunak said the position he had set out was “highly aligned with our allies” and their own security strategies.

“If you look at the U.S. national security strategy that was published just a couple of weeks ago, and if you look at how they describe their view of China and how to deal with it, I think you’ll find that it’s very similar to how I’ve just described it,” he said. “The Canadians, the Australians — their versions of that strategy all say similar things.”
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