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Western leaders are beginning to have a clearer vision of how they hope the war in Ukraine will end. What is missing is any plan to make it happen.
Rishi Sunak , Britain’s prime minister, is trying to do what none of his recent predecessors have pulled off: Move the U.K. beyond Brexit, shore up the country’s rickety public services and sell the country as a profitable destination for business. He also has only about a year and a half to persuade British voters that, after 13 years in power, the Conservative Party of Brexit and Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss deserves a record fifth consecutive term in office.
Rishi Sunak , Britain’s prime minister, is trying to do what none of his recent predecessors have pulled off: Move the U.K. beyond Brexit, shore up the country’s rickety public services and sell the country as a profitable destination for business. He also has only about a year and a half to persuade British voters that, after 13 years in power, the Conservative Party of Brexit and Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss deserves a record fifth consecutive term in office.
China poses an “epoch-defining systemic challenge” to the U.K. and its allies, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Sunday, as the U.K. government said it would spend an extra $6 billion on its nuclear-armed submarine fleet and replenishing munitions stockpiles to bolster support for Ukraine and deter an increasingly assertive China. “It’s a country with fundamentally different values to ours, and I think over the last few years it’s become increasingly authoritarian at home and assertive abroad,” Mr. Sunak said of China, during an interview. “Its behavior suggests it has the intention—but also its actions show it is interested in reshaping the world order and that’s the crux of it.”
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was traveling to San Diego on Sunday for talks with the U.S. and Australia about sharing defense technology. The U.K. government said Sunday that it would spend an extra $6 billion investing in its nuclear-defense capabilities and replenishing munitions stockpiles, as part of a refreshed national-security review that aims to bolster support to Ukraine and deter an increasingly assertive China. In a written statement, the British government said it would spend the extra funds over the next two years to reinforce its stretched military. The bulk of those funds would go into the country’s nuclear program, including enhanced support for its submarine fleet. The government is also buying fresh ammunition supplies to replace the equipment that it has given to Ukraine during its war with Russia.
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