Liz Truss, the foreign minister who joins the prime minister at the NATO summit in Madrid, was clearer, calling for faster action to help Taiwan with defense weapons, a key requirement for Ukraine from the invasion. “There is always a tendency – and we have seen it before the Ukraine war – there is always a tendency of pious desires, to hope that other bad things will not happen and to wait until it is too late,” Tras said abroad. Committee on Cases. Her words went far beyond the standard government language on the subject. “We should have done things earlier, we should have procured defense weapons in Ukraine earlier. We need to learn this lesson about Taiwan. “Every piece of equipment we send requires months of training, so the faster we do it, the better.” Johnson was more cautious about direct reference to China, but in comments Monday that likened Ukraine’s need for support to World War II, said the impact of allowing a Russian victory “will also be felt in East Asia.” . On his plane as he traveled from the G7 summit in southern Germany to Madrid, Johnson was asked by reporters for comment and whether Taiwan needed more support. “I just think it is very important that countries around the world can not read the facts in Europe and come to the conclusion that the world will just be inactive if the borders are changed by force,” he said. “This is one of the most important lessons we are learning from Ukraine.” Subscribe to the First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7 p.m. BST Taiwan has been self-governing since nationalist forces took refuge on the island after the Communist Party took control of China in 1949. Beijing considers Taiwan a province of rebels and has regularly threatened to retake it by force. At the Commons hearing, Trash also promised lawmakers that he would pursue an autonomous foreign policy strategy for relations with China. “I am just happy to be free. “I am very clear that we have a strategy for China that I am currently implementing in everything I do, but as far as a written document is concerned, I will go far and look into it.”
