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Recommendation 17
17
Deferred
Paragraph: 59
Publish unclassified China Strategy and sector-specific guidance for critical industries.
Recommendation
The Government should urgently publish an unclassified version of its China Strategy to ensure cross-Government coherence and also publish sector-specific guidance to support, in particular, industries of critical national importance, national security, or data-intensive industries. It must also ensure all relevant Ministers have been briefed on the higher classification version.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government's response discusses its economic engagement with the Indo-Pacific region and its growth, completely sidestepping the recommendation to urgently publish an unclassified China Strategy and sector-specific guidance.
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Paragraph Reference:
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
51. The Government disagrees with the Committee’s recommendation. HMG clearly set out its approach to China in the Integrated Review Refresh: protecting our national security, aligning with our allies and partners and engaging with China where it is in UK interests to do so. The former Foreign Secretary’s Mansion House Speech in April built on this, making clear that we will always put British national interests and British national security first in our engagement with China. As such, the Government does not intend to publish an additional China Strategy and we have not committed to do so. We will continue to maintain as much transparency as possible and keep Parliament informed of our approach towards China, while recognising it is not in UK interests to make every element of the strategy public.
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