UK foreign secretary: NATO should protect Taiwan too

NATO should seek to boost security in the Indo-Pacific region, Britain’s foreign secretary said, as she singled out Taiwan’s need for protection against China.

In a speech on the U.K.’s foreign policy Wednesday night, Liz Truss said the U.K. rejects “the false choice between Euro-Atlantic security and Indo-Pacific security” in favor of “a global NATO.”

“I mean that NATO must have a global outlook, ready to tackle global threats,” Truss said. “We need to pre-empt threats in the Indo-Pacific, working with allies like Japan and Australia to ensure that the Pacific is protected. We must ensure that democracies like Taiwan are able to defend themselves.”