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Why Britain is tilting to the Indo-Pacific region


Why Britain is tilting to the Indo-Pacific region
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
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The new UK aircraft carrier, Queen Elizabeth, seen through the cockpit of a Merlin helicopter during trials. It will deploy in May to the Indian Ocean.
Some will call it a tilt, others a rebalancing and yet others a pivot but, either way, the new big idea due to emerge from the government’s foreign and defence policy review on Tuesday will be the importance of the Indo-Pacific region – a British return east of Suez more than 50 years after the then defence secretary Denis Healey announced the UK’s cash-strapped retreat in 1968. ....

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