Post-Brexit Britain has its sights on Asia—if it can get over Europe first

Barack Obama billed himself as the “the first Pacific president,” and between 2008 and 2016 pursued a vision for the US to take a leading role in Asia. Now, the UK is joining the fray, with ambitious plans for a post-Brexit “Global Britain” that has stronger ties to the Indo-Pacific, where many of its former colonies reside. On Monday (Jan. 11), the House of Commons met to debate the UK’s post-Brexit foreign policy strategy as an independent nation outside of the EU, for the first time since 1973.