U.K. Minister for the Indo-Pacific Anne-Marie Trevelyan visited Japan over Jan. 16-20. Her self-declared mission was to consolidate the “cutting-edge partnership” between Japan and the U.K., whose cornerstone is the just-signed Anglo-Japanese security alliance. She had meetings with anyone she could get her hands on, not just government officials, seeking to develop “vital collaboration between the two countries on everything from trade to education.” Trevelyan spoke of “the U.K.’s ambition” to tighten relations with scientific centers and its “ambition” to strengthen economic ties with companies across Japan. She met with Japanese graduates from U.K. universities “to launch a new British Council alumni network,” thus pulling together a centralized network of Anglophiles, if not outright British agents.