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New 'Global Britain' Sets Naval Sight on Asia EST 1995 SOUTHEAST ASIA | New 'global Britain' sets naval sights on Asia Venice - Splendid London - Park Plaza Venice - Hotel London - Park Grand London - Park Plaza Venice - Starhotels London Hyde Park London, Park Royal Ai Due Principi Collezione London Riverbank SOUTHEAST ASIA UNITED KINGDOM ASIA UNHEDGED REAL-TIME INTEL ON WHAT MOVES MARKETS New ‘global Britain’ sets naval sight 3 HOURS AGO on Asia Taiwan to upgrade lab for biological warfare defense UK says it will establish soon a new naval base in the region, likely in Brunei or Singapore, a move Taiwan has cheer China has also unveiled a will likely lament plan to build between ve and seven level-4 labs across the nation by the mid-2020s By DAVID HUTT, @davidhuÓjourno | LYON, FRANCE, JANUARY 8, 2019 3:51 PM (UTC+8) 3 HOURS AGO Bullet train drivers in China to become mere passengers Japan also aims to up the ante in a race with China to be rst to have trains running on autopilot 5 HOURS AGO Xi to host huge parade for China’s 70th anniversary President Xi, known for his penchant for pomp and circumstance, is seen to need such parades to bolster his image MORE RTehep doailry t Must-reads from across Asia - directly to your inbox Your Email here A British naval oÈcer looks up at the uÓering White ensign ag hoisted at the stern during the Commissioning Ceremony for the Royal Navy aircraÅ carrier Elizabeth at HM Naval Base in Portsmouth, southern England on December 7, 2017. Photo: AFP/Richard Pohle SUBMIT RBP f as expected the United Kingdom leaves the European Union later this year, the one-time colonial power will again shi its gaze towards Asia. That was conrmed last week when Defense Secretary Gavin EST 1995 SOUTHEAST ASIA | New 'global Britain' sets naval sights on Asia CHINA DIGEST Williamson said that Britain aims to establish a new naval base More on this topic ECONOMICS AND POLICY FROM somewhere in Asia in the coming years. CHINA'S NEWSPAPERS I UK’s hopes of 15 HOURS AGO Must-reads from across Asia - directly to your Pacic strike The daily inbox Chinese economy will Report France prema grow 6.3% in 2019: EMANUELE SCIMIA economists Your Email here SUBMIT 8.57% growth rate for retail sales expected, down from 2018's estimated 9.02% Oawa dema “This is our bigest moment as a nation since the end of the Second release Canad 15 HOURS AGO World War,” Williamson said. “This is our moment to be that true detainees China will meet its ANDREW SALMON A 6.5% growth target global player once more – and I think the armed forces play a really for 2018: oÀcial important role as part of that.” Output is expected to reach 90 trillion yuan, an increase Rescued kids of 8 trillion yuan over 2017 Singapore or Brunei, two of care homes, m Britain’s old colonies in rejoined crim 16 HOURS AGO Southeast Asia, could be ASIA TIMES STAFF Developer potential sites for the Evergrande sets sales target of US$87 billion broached new base, a source EVEN MORE Firm has launched 35 million close to Williamson told the square meters of new homes worth 370 billion yuan Sunday Telegraph, a British MORE newspaper. Brunei already hosts a small THE BRIEF British military base, where a baalion of the Royal Gurkha Ries is stationed and paid for by the MAIN LATEST country’s ruling Sultan. 08-01-2019 20:19 Malaysia, another former British colony but whose government is now Nissan’s Ghosn denies controlled by a known anti-British prime minister, Mahathir every charge (Jake Mohamad, appears ill-t for the role. Adelstein) 08-01-2019 19:13 One year since crypto peaked and it all looks very di¿erent (Luke Thompson) The UK’s HMS Albion warship at a port in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: British Royal Navy It also seems unlikely that Britain would opt for an Asian country that is not part of its Commonwealth, a political association mostly composed of the UK’s former territories. Regardless of where the prospective base is located, or how signicant RBPit will be militarily, it is yet another indication that Britain aims to play a much biger role in Asian aairs than it has for decades. It’s all part of the ruling Conservative party’s axiom to forge a new EST 1995 SOUTHEAST ASIA | New 'global Britain' sets naval sights on Asia “global Britain.” But the move comes at a confusing time, both in Europe and Asia. In recent years, geopolitical tensions in Asia have escalated between an assertive China, which has spread its diplomacy far and wide through its US$1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investment scheme, and a revanchist United States keen to regain the inuence and power it has Hotel Bonvecchiati lost due to China’s rise. Venice Britain, virtually absent from the Asia-Pacic since de-colonization more than half a century ago, appears to feel there is a place to reposition itself in the region amid the ri, to reemerge as a “true global player” in Williamson’s words. It has certain regional backers. Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, who Book now was told by China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping recently that he might consider using military force to achieve “reunication” of the two nations, said on January 5 that she welcomed a new British military base in the region. Park Plaza London, Park “Any actions that will be helpful towards maintaining peace in the Royal South China Sea, as well as maintaining freedom of passage,” she said London would be supported by Taiwan. 08-01-2019 19:13 Taiwan to upgrade lab for biological warfare defense (Asia Times Sta¿) 08-01-2019 18:58 Govt oëers quota beneÀts to poor upper-caste voters (Shivam Vij) 08-01-2019 18:43 Bullet train drivers in China to become mere passengers (Asia Times Sta¿) 08-01-2019 18:04 A British naval oÈcer aboard a warship. Photo: Facebook Fears of environmental threat from burnt tanker o¿ Hong Kong (Asia Times Few other Asian governments have publicly commented on the Sta¿ And AFP) Britain’s planned new naval base, but it might have gone down well in regional capitals that oppose China’s expansionist moves in the South 08-01-2019 17:17 Xi to host huge parade for China Sea, parts of which are contested by Vietnam, Malaysia, the China’s 70th anniversary Philippines and Taiwan. (Asia Times Sta¿) 08-01-2019 16:57 “It is clearly a muscle-exing gesture targeting China and shows closer Why Indonesia's military engagement of external powers in the South China Sea disputes,” Xu and police just can't get Liping, a professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacic Studies under the along. (John McBeth) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the South China Morning 08-01-2019 16:55 Post. The Supreme Court set aside the Modi government's October 2018 Since the Brexit referendum in June 2016, at which a slim majority of order stating that the federal voters opted to leave the European Union, successive Conservative investigation agency's independence must be governments ill-prepared for such an outcome have scrambled not protected (Saikat DaÓa) only to sort out an exit deal but also how to dene Britain’s place in the RBPworld post-Brexit. 08-01-2019 16:26 UAE backs Pakistan with $6.2 billion in aid, doubt on Back in January 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May said she wanted to build a “global Britain.” Months later, then Foreign Secretary Boris IMF bailout (Kunwar Johnson stated that Britain would be “more commied to the Asia- Khuldune Shahid) EST 1995 SOUTHEAST ASIA | New 'global Britain' sets naval sights on Asia Pacic region” and aer decades of moving its military interests 08-01-2019 15:51 westwards away from Asia the UK’s forces would be heading “back east A new 'global Britain' sets of Suez.” its naval sights on Asia. (David HuÓ) At the time, few analysts thought such uerances were more than 08-01-2019 15:49 platitudes or even delusions. For critics, it was the government trying Indonesia luncurkan to put a positive spin on the Brexit deal. aplikasi baru untuk pekerja migran (Asia Times Sta¿) But, in April of last year, Britain opened a new naval base in Bahrain, its 08-01-2019 14:56 rst new base east of Suez since 1971. A new training base in Oman is ‘Deal of the century’ to beneÀt Israel despite delays set to open this year. With 16 military bases across the world, Britain is (Shaiel Ben-Ephraim) second only to the US in scale. 08-01-2019 13:17 While for decades previous governments have had nothing similar to Asia may get trumped amid World Bank intrigue America’s “Pivot to Asia” or Russia’s “Look East” policies, Britain has (William Pesek) nonetheless maintained signicant military interests in the Asia- Pacic. 08-01-2019 12:27 Kim in China: Prelude to next Kim-Trump summit? (Andrew Salmon) 08-01-2019 06:50 Chinese economy will grow 6.3% in 2019: economists (Asia Times Sta¿) 08-01-2019 06:36 China will meet its 6.5% growth target for 2018: oÈcial (Asia Times Sta¿) 08-01-2019 06:13 Developer Evergrande sets sales target of US$87 billion British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in central London in a le photo. (Asia Times Sta¿) Photo: AFP 08-01-2019 05:23 Opinion // Put your For instance, it still holds regular military exercises with its recession fears aside, but expect slower growth (Ted Commonwealth partners, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Gover) Zealand, all of whom are still party to the Five Power Defense Arrangements, a defense relationship formed in the 1970s.
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