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Rishi Sunak has suggested relations with China will not get any warmer now David Cameron is Foreign Secretary, warning that the country is “not the same as it was a decade ago”.
Speaking at the Global Investment Summit, the Prime Minister said: “If David were here to say he would say that China today is not the China that he dealt with a decade ago.”
China-sceptic MP Tobias Ellwood, the former Chair of the Defence Select Committee, lent his support to Sunak’s remarks, telling GB News that the former PM has a “key role to play” in preventing the world from “splintering into two spheres of influence”.
He said: “The ‘what to do about China’ question is far more nuanced than ‘engage or decouple’.
“China is not going away. Militarily, technologically and economically this is China’s century.
“If the world is to avoid splintering into two spheres of competing influence then an off-ramp avoiding a world at war must be found soon.”
He added: “Cameron has a key role to play here.”
But fellow China-sceptic MP Iain Duncan-Smith, former leader of the party, told GB News Sunak is simply trying to “patch up” the “crass mess” made by Cameron.
Over the weekend, the Foreign Secretary said he supports the Government’s current “realistic, hard-headed policy” towards China.
But speaking to the BBC he insisted that it is still right to “engage” with China, suggesting the country is key to solving major global issues like climate change.
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