Former prime minister Liz Truss has made a personal plea for Rishi Sunak to brand China as a "threat" to UK security during a visit to Taiwan.
EDnews informs via BBC that the ex-prime minister challenged Mr Sunak to deliver on pledges he made last summer to clamp down on China.
Ms Truss made the speech in Taipei City on Wednesday, making her the first former prime minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher.
The Chinese Embassy called Ms Truss's visit "a dangerous political stunt".
It added that the visit "will do nothing but harm to the UK".
In the speech, Ms Truss urged the West not to work with China, warning that totalitarian regimes "don't tell the truth".
She drew comparisons between the tensions between China and Taiwan, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.