Sir Stephen Lovegrove, the UK’s national security adviser, says backdoor channels have deteriorated
Taiwanese military personnel take part in a military exercise simulating a Chinese invasion, amid rising tensions with the west and Beijing over the island.Taiwanese military personnel take part in a military exercise simulating a Chinese invasion, amid rising tensions with the west and Beijing over the island.Last modified on Thu 28 Jul 2022 05.16 BSTbecause of a “breakdown of communication” with the two countries, the UK’s national security adviser has warned.
In a speech in Washington at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, he said he believed the deterioration of communication with“The cold war’s two monolithic blocks of the USSR and– though not without alarming bumps – were able to reach a shared understanding of doctrine that is today absent,” he said. “Doctrine is opaque in Moscow and Beijing, let alone Pyongyang or Tehran.”
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