Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss called for a Cold War-style “economic NATO” to counter the Chinese regime’s economic dominance during a visit to Taipei on Wednesday.
She also urged “all free nations” to back the self-governing republic’s freedom, drawing the ire of Beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island.
Truss is the first former British prime minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher’s trip to the island in the 1990s.
In a keynote speech to think tank The Prospect Foundation, Truss said she believes democratic countries need “something similar to” the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, an informal Western Bloc organisation that coordinated embargoes against the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War….