Rishi Sunak has backtracked on his promise to ban Confucius Institutes from operating in Britain, in the latest sign of the UK prime minister trying to improve relations with Beijing.
His retreat was criticised by former prime minister Liz Truss who gave a speech in Taiwan on Wednesday in which she urged Sunak to clearly designate China as “a threat”.
However, Sunak is trying to improve economic relations with China, and Downing Street admitted that it would be “disproportionate” to close down Beijing’s cultural and language outposts in Britain.
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