Liz Truss, UK foreign secretary, will call for liberal allies to “face down global aggressors” on Friday in a highly charged speech aimed at Russia and China.
Truss will argue in an address at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think-tank, that Moscow and Beijing have been “emboldened in a way we haven’t seen since the cold war”, according to a copy of her remarks seen by the Financial Times.
Truss and Ben Wallace, UK defence secretary, are in Sydney for talks with the Australian government over closer security ties following the signing of the Aukus deal last year. The pact between London, Canberra and Washington was designed to enable Australia to obtain nuclear-powered submarines as part of an effort to counteract an increasingly assertive China.