Can UK draw in India to boost its Asia-Pacific strategy?
By Gao Jian Source: Global Times Published: 2020/12/21 20:58:40
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the House of Commons in London, Britain, on Oct 29, 2019. File photo:Xinhua
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his Indian counterpart, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, met in New Delhi recently. Reports show that India has accepted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson s invitation for the G7 summit to be held in the UK next year. Also, the UK will dispatch its aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth and its escort fleet to the Indo-Pacific next year. Johnson will also make his first visit to India in January. It seems that ties between the two sides are warming sharply.
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India visit,Boris Johnson first major trip as PM
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson accepted the invitation by Indian PM Narendra Modi to be Chief Guest at Republic Day of India. He will be the Chief Guest at the forthcoming Republic Day parade. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab made the announcement after meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi.Presence of PM Johnson at the celebrations will be symbolic of a new era, a new phase of our relationship.
Earlier Prince Philip in 1959 and Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rap Butler (1956, along with Japan’s former Chief Justice Kotaro Tanaka), and then Chief of Defence Staff Lord Louis Mountbatten (1964) have also been Chief Guests in the past.