After Brexit and after the COVID-19 crisis, as the fog of uncertainty clears and the dust settles, there on the new international landscape, as viewed from the island of Great Britain, we shall see two markedly new and different features.
One of these will be labeled “Japan” and the other will be marked “Commonwealth network.”
Why these two? Take Japan first. This will feature because as the United Kingdom develops a new pattern of alliances and bilateral links it will look to its natural friends in Asia (by far the fastest growing and most successful post-COVID-19 region) to build a new international position.