Britain targets influence in Indo-Pacific as counterweight to China

China should be brought into efforts to reduce the global stock of nuclear weapons, Johnson said.

Britain wants to expand its influence among democratic nations in the Indo-Pacific region while preserving strong ties with the United States, a document laying out the country's post-Brexit foreign policy priorities says.
 
Putting Britain at odds with China, the biggest review of British foreign and defence policy since the end of the Cold War three decades ago sets out how Boris Johnson wants to be at the forefront of a rules-based international order.
 
Calling the Indo Pacific “increasingly the geopolitical centre of the world”, the government highlighted a British aircraft carrier deployment to the region and announced a