Britain’s defence chief warns China not to ‘transgress’ rules as South Korean general hints at joining Quad, Aukus
- The uniformed head of Britain’s armed forces said Russia’s war in Ukraine showed China could face ‘all kinds of consequences’ if it broke international law
- He spoke at the Raisina Dialogue in India, where a South Korean general said the country’s new president was examining joining the US-led security groupings
“What China needs to … observe is, when you transgress these international rules, this world order, it leads to all kinds of consequences,” Radakin said in New Delhi at the Raisina Dialogue 2022, an annual conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics organised by India’s external affairs ministry and the Observer Research Foundation think tank.
Asked whether the war in Ukraine would “distract the West from the China question”, the professional head of Britain’s armed forces signalled his disagreement, stressing the need to be “really careful” when drawing such conclusions.
He said that the West’s response against Russia’s aggression would act as a “constraint on how nations will act”, without naming China specifically.
“This response has shown … what the implications are when you use that force and what the implications are when you transgress the international rules of the world,” he said.