{"id":329254,"date":"2021-04-27T05:17:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=329254"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:05:08","slug":"britains-deployment-is-not-to-be-provocative-says-defence-sec-as-uk-sends-aircraft-carrier-and-other-warships-towards-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/britains-deployment-is-not-to-be-provocative-says-defence-sec-as-uk-sends-aircraft-carrier-and-other-warships-towards-china\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Britain\u2019s deployment is not to be provocative,\u2019 says defence sec as UK sends aircraft carrier and other warships towards China"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">In a tit for tat reaction China should send the same number of warships to the English channel in order to &#8221; protect freedom of navigation &#8220;&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>London has defended the UK\u2019s decision to send a strike group, including its new \u00a33 billion aircraft carrier, to the East Asia to visit allies and take part in exercises, claiming it is not being \u201cprovocative\u201d towards China.<br \/>\nSpeaking on Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told Sky News the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth, on its first operational deployment, would be positive for diplomacy and would not provoke conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen our carrier strike group sets sail next month, it will be flying the flag for Global Britain, projecting our influence, signalling our power, engaging with our friends and reaffirming our commitment to addressing the security challenges of today and tomorrow,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Questioned as to whether it was wise to be sending a vessel towards China at this time, Wallace said HMS Queen Elizabeth\u2019s deployment in May was not \u201cprovocative\u201d, but sought to show Britain was ready to \u201cplay an active role in shaping the international system of the 21st century\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/522111-britain-vessel-east-asia-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maitreyarael\/posts\/10157639564251216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: In a tit for tat reaction China should send the same number of warships to the English channel in order to &#8221; protect freedom of navigation &#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":329255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raels-comments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}