Truss calls for 'economic NATO' to face down China Former prime minister Liz Truss delivered a speech in Japan in the early hours of the morning UK time. She was speaking at a conference organised by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac), an international campaign group seeking to co-ordinate the response of democratic nations to Beijing. The former foreign secretary used the address to call for an "economic NATO" to head off China, with ready-made sanctions and an equivalent to article 5 - where an attack on one member leads to retaliation by all of them. Ms Truss said the...