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Prof. Shaun Breslin features on podcast on Britain's Role In East Asia
Professor Shaun Breslin recently featured on a podcast for Chatham House, "Does Britain Matter in East Asia?"
Britain has a range of longstanding interests in East Asia, based on historic, commercial and military ties. The government has made strengthening bilateral relationships with emerging powers – in particular China – a central plank of its foreign policy, whilst trying to find a balance between an ambitious commercial agenda and the promotion of democracy and human rights. But while the UK has important interests it has limited influence in maintaining regional security, which is threatened by continuing tensions in the East and South China Seas and on the Korean peninsula.
The participants discuss these challenges, and consider how the next government can balance the UK’s sometimes competing interests in East Asia.