According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:
China is rapidly increasing its economic and military power. What it will do with this is as yet unclear, but the potential is clear. There are focal points of instability in the region between North and South Korea, between China and Taiwan, issues of internal protests in Tibet, between Indonesia and Australia, and to the west of the region between India and Pakistan.
It is safe to say that there will be recurring crises, some of a military nature. As a major global trading nation we cannot be indifferent, but neither do we have much capability to act at this range. We do however have historic ties to Australia and New Zealand.
UKIP policy is that UK should apply to join, as an associate or a full member, the ANZUS defence pact. This involves joint exercises and consultations but has no integrated defence structure or dedicated forces. We should also examine other wider means of Commonwealth defence co-operation.
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on UK Independence Party’s The Far East-Asia policies in the comments below?