Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss clashed over China on Sunday amid an increasingly tense race to become the UK’s next prime minister.
The two candidates initially battled mainly over economics. The battleground has now expanded to include immigration and China policies as they vie for the support of Conservative grassroots.
Previously praised by the Global Times—a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece—as the only candidate out of the five contenders at the time “with a pragmatic view of developing balanced ties with China” and forced to defend his stance on trading with China by Truss, Sunak sought to boost his national security credential by promising to “face down China.”…