The deployment of Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Indo-Pacific region will show China that the UK believes in the law of the sea, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. The Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth will head to Asia later this month in a massive show of force aimed at countering the security challenges posed by the Chinese regime. “One of the things we’ll be doing clearly is showing to our friends in China that we believe in the international law of the sea, and in a confident but not a confrontational way, we will be vindicating that point,” Johnson told broadcasters on board the carrier while visiting the Portsmouth Naval Base on the southern English coast. “We don’t want to antagonise anybody, but we do think that the United Kingdom plays a very important role, with friends and partners—the Americans, the …