Wednesday 29 June 2022 02:48 AM Now Liz Truss says Britain should send weapons to help TAIWAN amid fears of an ... trends now
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Liz Truss has suggested that the UK should provide military aid to Taiwan.
The Foreign Secretary made the surprising remarks while giving evidence to a Commons committee yesterday.
Britain currently has no defence or diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which it is feared could be invaded by China, with Beijing increasingly hostile towards Taipei.
Officially the UK position has been to seek a 'peaceful resolution' between the countries. If embarked upon, Miss Truss's plan would probably enrage the Chinese and leave Britain even shorter on military equipment.
'We should have done things earlier, we should have been supplying defensive weapons into Ukraine earlier. We need to learn that lesson for Taiwan,' Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the select committee yesterday
Appearing before the foreign affairs committee yesterday, Miss Truss said: 'There is always a tendency, and we've seen this prior to the Ukraine war, of wishful thinking, to hope more bad things won't happen and to wait until it
