Secretary Antony J. Blinken and United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Cameron at a Joint Press Availability

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SECRETARY BLINKEN: We talked about ways to strengthen efforts to prevent the transfer in weapons and materiel to Russia for use in Ukraine. And this is an ongoing challenge, and we see weapons, we also see technologies to support the defense industrial base in Russia coming from North Korea, from Iran, from China. This is an area of particular concern for not only the United States and the United Kingdom but many of our allies and partners throughout Europe.

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SECRETARY BLINKEN: In the Indo-Pacific, our two countries are aligned on the key issues before us in the Indo-Pacific: ensuring peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, standing up when the PRC is engaged in unfair trade practices and non-market practices, including addressing the global economic consequences of Chinese industrial overcapacity and the need for a level playing field. Secretary Yellen spoke very clearly and forcefully to this during her recent trip to China. This is an ongoing concern for our countries and for many other countries around the world.

And of course, we have our AUKUS agreement, modernizing partnerships to meet future challenges to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific. Australia’s selection last month of British companies to develop nuclear-powered submarines is a milestone in actually integrating our defense industrial bases.

We also discussed partnerships with other countries through AUKUS, including one that we’ll discuss with Japan when Prime Minister Kishida is here this week, and having partners engage particularly in Pillar II activities is something that will carry this partnership forward.

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FOREIGN SECRETARY CAMERON: We know that it is right to stop Putin’s aggression. We know it’s right for our own militaries and our own production bases to ramp up production not just for Ukraine but for our own stocks. And as Tony said, so many of the jobs created will be jobs created here in the United States and indeed, when we’re dealing with our own weapons systems, jobs in the UK.

We know it’s right to send this very clear message to all those watching around the world, including China, that we stand by our allies, that we don’t reward aggression, that we help those who are trying to fight it off. And we know it’s right for our own security.

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Source: U.S. Department of State

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