SYDNEY: Britain plans to play a bigger role in Asia after Brexit, including deploying its military to the area if necessary, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Thursday. Johnson backed the campaign to quit the EU and said the decision had given his country the opportunity to “think afresh” about its international role, while maintaining close ties with its European partners. “One of the things I find everywhere I go is that people want more Britain, not less Britain. It comes as Beijing flexes its muscle in the region through a military build-up in the contested South China Sea. Johnson said Britain took “no position on the merits of the case,” an approach echoed by Australia.

Source: Manila Times July 27, 2017 01:30 UTC