With a new president in place, and the UK’s G7 presidency up and running, we will have a new Indo-Pacific trading opportunity.
We feel the power of American culture in Britain – and the shock-jockery, coat-trailing, and oppositional mindset that comes with it.
Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.
The agreement involves revising an international border – opposed in this case by the EU and the UK. It will have knock-on effects elsewhere.
It should remain a basic principle that no Government commits British troops into a conflict zone before a full statement in the Commons.
America’s result is having knock-on effects in Downing Street: see yesterday’s green speech and today’s defence news.
Whilst the incoming President is no enthusiast for Brexit, there are other areas in which Britain can seek to work in partnership with his White House.
The UK depends on international structures to exercise power on the world stage. Biden would restore them, and it should be our duty to assist him.
We should have supported an extension to the conventional arms embargo at the United Nations in August – and must back sanctions.
This week marks a bleak anniversary for those from the former princely state. But there’s a new corrective to the Tory pro-India tilt.
On a range of issues from trade to defence, Yoshihide Suga knows that he has inherited a valuable partnership. Now is the time to build on it.
As we depart the EU, a new commitment to this older body would demonstrate our continuing commitment to our friends on the continent.
The region has been conspicuously absent from our foreign policy discourse, largely attributable to mistrust on intervention caused by the Iraq war.