But other senior figures say he should use the trip to 'argue vociferously' with Beijing.
On Twitter, the former Cabinet minister added: “How can the UK Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs continue to think he has to go to China to ‘kowtow’ to China while they steal our secrets and commit genocide?Ms Kearns however argued: “It is better to be in a room arguing vociferously with China than it is to have no dialogue with them at all.”
She added that Mr Cleverly must take a tough line with China more akin to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen than French President Emmanuel Macron, who sparked anger after making ambiguous comments about the approach Europe should take on Taiwan.“There are choices to be made and some world leaders are showing themselves to be wanting when they visit China.
“From my position the sole purpose of going is to explain to China that we are not a hostile state and that defence is not an escalation.”accessed the Foreign Office’s internal systems in a major security breach that was kept secret from the publicMs Kearns said the LinkedIn spy story was “more evidence that China has industrialised its espionage effort against Britain”.
“China has industrialised data exfiltration whether it be through spies through TikTok or other technology. “Every government has a secret service whose duty it is to get information to keep a country safe, the difference here is that China’s secret service is actively trying to undermine and make more vulnerable a different country.”
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