Securing Asia Summit Closes With Record Attendances From Foreign Delegations
MP Jo Johnson closed the 3-day Counter Terror and Homeland Security Summit, Securing Asia 2012, on Friday, addressing the vital issue of British business opportunities and interests in the Asian homeland security market. Speaking of the need to address the trade deficit, he cited the importance of improving the export competitiveness of UK firms, by getting them to turn and face more resolutely towards the fast-growing Asian markets. He quoted Foreign Secretary William Hague, speaking in Singapore earlier this year: “Today Britain is looking East as never before…Asia’s rise is