James Cleverly, UK foreign secretary, will face down China hawks in his governing Conservative party with a set-piece policy speech calling for a “robust and constructive” new bilateral relationship with Beijing.
In the address at the City of London’s Mansion House, Cleverly will say on Tuesday: “It would be clear and easy — perhaps even satisfying — for me to declare a new cold war and say that our goal is to isolate China.
“Clear, easy, satisfying and wrong. Because it would be a betrayal of our national interest and a wilful misunderstanding of the modern world.”
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