China has transformed its economic, political, cultural, cyber, space and defence capabilities to a point at which it threatens the US as the region’s guarantor of peace and the Rules-based International Order itself at the strategic level. The Indo-Pacific region is one of the three world economic centres consisting of 40 per cent of global trade and thus crucial to the UK’s future trade and prosperity. The author highlights what should be obvious (but perhaps that is too often put in the ‘all-too-difficult pending tray’) – an urgent need to expand our navy to promote our vital interests in s…
