GEOPOLITICS SPILLING INTO ECONOMIC SPHERE
He recognised how regional groupings are important amid rising protectionism in recent times.
“We have to proceed to make the case that we will rise and prosper collectively,” he famous.
“In some components of the world, new obstacles are going up. That is why it makes it all of the extra essential that nations of goodwill and shared considerations are in a position to work collectively to take down pointless commerce obstacles.”
This comes as geopolitics is more and more spilling into the financial sphere.
A number of UK ministers are within the Indo-Pacific area this week for numerous talks, to indicate the Labour authorities’s new strategy on the world stage.
“The Indo-Pacific is mainly the quickest rising area on the planet,” mentioned British Minister for the Indo-Pacific Catherine West on the sidelines of the Milken Institute’s Asia Summit in Singapore.
Whereas there are numerous alternatives obtainable for its companies, Britain additionally has “loads to supply” the area, together with areas resembling schooling, local weather change and tradition, she instructed CNA on Wednesday.
“We’re open for enterprise,” she mentioned, echoing Mr Alexander.
“We will have a way of predictability, in order that individuals are very clear that they’ll spend money on the UK and we will have investments right here within the Indo-Pacific. Collectively, we will have that prosperity that all of us want to see.”