Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 29 November 2022

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1. Sunak talks tough on China

Rishi Sunak has declared that the “golden era” of relations with China is over. In his first foreign policy speech, the PM vowed to “evolve” the UK’s stance towards China and took an apparent swipe at recent predecessors, saying the closer economic ties of the previous decade had been “naïve”. Sunak also said the UK needed to replace wishful thinking with “robust pragmatism” towards competitors. Sunak has been under pressure from Tory backbenchers to “toughen the UK’s stance on China”, said the BBC.

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