The UK's place in the world
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How can the UK shape its foreign policy in response to threats posed by the likes of Russia and China? And how does that fit with the government’s vision of ‘Global Britain'?
David Aaronovitch asks the experts: James Landale: BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Lord Ricketts: former diplomat, ambassador and national security advisor Dr Leslie Vinjamuri: director of the the US & Americas programme at Chatham House Christopher Hill: Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Cambridge University and author of 'The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World After Brexit' Dr Victoria Honeyman: politics lecturer and specialist in British foreign policy at the University of Leeds.
Producers: Kirsteen Knight, Simon Coates and Joe Kent. Editor: Jasper Corbett.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David Aronovich. Imagine they've just made you |
| 0:14.8 | foreign secretary or put you in charge of health policy. Who are you going to call? |
| 0:19.7 | Time is short, but here in the briefing room, |
| 0:21.8 | in just 28 minutes, the top experts will fill you in. This week, we've had the Russia report |
| 0:28.8 | and the row with China. Where next for British diplomacy? Here's how it looks. We don't like Russia. |
| 0:44.0 | We're increasingly dismayed by China. We're out of the EU. |
| 0:48.6 | And we're faced with potentially two very different versions of the American alliance |
| 0:53.1 | after November's presidential election. |
| 0:56.1 | It's a challenging time for British diplomacy, but at least we have a slogan. |
| 1:01.6 | Global Britain, global Britain, global Britain, global Britain. |
| 1:04.1 | Global Britain is open for business. |
| 1:06.4 | So what does global Britain mean? |
| 1:09.3 | And what challenges does it face? Step inside the briefing room and |
| 1:13.2 | together we'll find out. First, I'm joined by the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale |
| 1:22.9 | to tell us how foreign affairs have come back into such sharp focus. |
| 1:29.8 | British foreign policy is in transition at the moment. |
| 1:35.0 | So in recent weeks, we've seen the British government adopting a much more robust stance on China. |
| 1:38.6 | It has criticised Hong Kong security laws. |
| 1:44.1 | It has offered settlement to millions of Hong Kongers with British passports. It's criticized China's |
| 1:45.7 | treatment of the U.GiG minority. It has banned Huawei, the Chinese tech company, from the UK. |
| 1:51.9 | We've also seen, secondly, the imposition of what are called the Magnitsky sanctions on |
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