World Economic Axis Tilting Towards Indo-Pacific: Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson reiterated his central message of creating a global Britain, with greater freedom to define the country's post-Brexit foreign policy.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday zeroed in on UK's focus on enhancing relations with “friendly countries" in the Indo-Pacific, as he declared that the world was tilting on its economic axis towards the region.
In his flagship speech at the ruling Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester, Johnson pointed to the recently signed AUKUS security agreement between Australia, the UK and the US as a sign of this enhanced focus on the region.
He reiterated his central message of creating a global Britain, with greater freedom to define the country's post-Brexit foreign policy as a result of leaving the European Union under his leadership.
“If you want a supreme example of global Britain in action, of something daring and brilliant that would simply not have happened if we had remained in the EU (European Union), I give you AUKUS,” said the 57-year-old Prime Minister, to applause from his Cabinet ministers and thousands of Tory party delegates.
