{"id":21025,"date":"2022-12-15T16:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/?p=21025"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:22:21","slug":"written-evidence-for-the-fac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/2022\/12\/written-evidence-for-the-fac\/","title":{"rendered":"Written evidence submitted by BFPG to the Foreign Affairs Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November, the British Foreign Policy Group submitted written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee&#8217;s inquiry on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update to the UK&#8217;s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our submission covered the need for a clear-sighted but calibrated approach to China. It outlined the need for a whole-of-Government and whole-of-UK engagement, that recognises and integrates a sophisticated appreciation of trade dynamics. The submission also outlined that broadening and deepening national capability in languages and regional understanding is essential, and touches on international development assistance as a strategic part of a national effort to counter Chinese influence in the developing world. The submission proposes further reflection on the second-order effects of sanctions and other drivers of decoupling, following observation of the recent sanctions imposed on Russia, with a view to ensuring that activist measures achieve the desired results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/113900\/html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Our Written Evidence Here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BFPG recently submitted evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee&#8217;s inquiry on the Update to the UK&#8217;s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":21281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-uk-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfpg.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}