Reported on the midday NHK news in Japan today, Friday that these typhoons will fly over the South China Sea soon to show Britain shares the US position that the seas should be free and open to international passage. Sir Kim Darroch spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC yesterday and mentioned that the UK will have two carriers by 2020, and that it would be of importance to send them to the Pacific in due course.
(News is still in Japanese; my precis above.)
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