heads of state in the past, and it s been rebuffed. why did you say yes? i was very cautious to consult this phone call with our government because obviously, the government and foreign ministry are guarantors of ourforeign policy. the phone call and the arguments made within the phone call were fully consistent with our policy of one china and there is no contradiction in having a phone call. well, it has been deeply criticised by officials in beijing and you knew it would be but you said this to the financial times you said, let us be clear. china and its current regime not compatible with western democracies in their strategic goals and their principles. your message to fellow western leaders seems to be, we need to get real. china is a fundamental threat to us and we need to begin the process of cutting our ties to china.
president. why did you do that? well, first, there was a request from the taiwanese side to have such a phone call. i take it as a matter of courtesy to accept congratulations. with respect, that taiwanese request will have been made to plenty of other european heads of state in the past, and it s been rebuffed. why did you say yes? i was very cautious to consult this phone call with our government because obviously, the government and foreign ministry are guarantors of ourforeign policy. the phone call and the arguments made within the phone call were fully consistent with our policy of one china and there is no contradiction in having a phone call. well, it has been deeply criticised by officials in beijing and you knew it would be but you said this to the financial times you said, let us be clear.
taiwanese request will have been made to plenty of other european heads of state in the past, and it s been rebuffed. why did you say yes? i was very cautious to consult this phone call with our government because obviously, the government and foreign ministry are guarantors of ourforeign policy. the phone call and the arguments made within the phone call were fully consistent with our policy of one china and there is no contradiction in having a phone call. well, it has been deeply criticised by officials in beijing and you knew it would be but you said this to the financial times you said, let us be clear. china and its current regime not compatible with western democracies in their strategic goals and their principles. your message to fellow western leaders seems to be, we need to get real. china is a fundamental threat
weren t in the 1990s in quite the way that i m describing. look, my own view is that we are in a very sorry place if ourforeign policy is purely transactional. if our prime minister is rushing to saudi arabia the day after they have executed 81 people. it is tricky, though, you tweeted a couple of years you tweeted a couple of years ago before you became shadow foreign secretary, it is time for the international community to wake up and defend the liberal and social values we have fought so hard for. mbs, the crown prince, should be under investigation. but you might have to deal with him. look, i don t say it s not complex, but i do say reducing uk foreign policy to transactional only is a huge problem. it s how we end up with dirty money, the russian dirty money problem we have got in london, an inflated housing market, and all the money rushing both
work plan for us, we are moving forward on it. i might add we can do all of this while doing what we said we could do from the outset, centring human rights in ourforeign policy. these priorities are not mutually exclusive. in fact, for as they are very much complementary. we will not separate values from our interest, we have made that clear enabling we ve done, but we are working productively, constructively. there was an announcement a short while ago, i m not sure if it has been made public, the support for increased production, which i think is an important thing to stabilise global energy markets, to make sure there remains an abundant supply of energy around the world. i remains an abundant supply of energy around the world. around the world. i have been very clear that the around the world. i have been very clear that the travel around the world. i have been very clear that the travel advice - around the world. i have been very clear that the travel advice from i clear tha