The UK is set to shift its focus from Europe to the Indo-Pacific region as part of a planned revamp of its foreign, trade and defence policy announced on Tuesday (16 March), which made scarce references to a future EU-UK security relationship. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told UK lawmakers on Tuesday that the country needed to “relearn the art of competing against states with opposing values” and described the UK’s new Integrated Review, which encompasses defence, foreign affairs, trade and development policy, as the most comprehensive since the Cold War. However, despite the shift towards South-East Asia, which will involve the UK applying to join the Trans-Pacific free trade agreement this year, the review – entitled “Global Britain in a Competitive Age”- states that China represents the biggest state-based threat to the UK, labelling it a “systemic competitor”.