Peter Mandelson: ‘China is now a rustic with whom we’re all engaged in a strategic rivalry’ | FT

Lord Peter Mandelson, UK ambassador to the US, talks to FT editor Roula Khalaf about placing the primary commerce cope with Donald Trump’s administration, and descriptions ambitions for a UK-US tech partnership centred on AI and quantum computing. Speaking on the FTWeekend competition in Washington DC, the previous EU commissioner discusses the losses and restricted positive aspects of Boris Johnson’s ‘terrible’ Brexit deal. Dubbed the ‘prince of darkness’ for serving to earlier Labour PM Tony Blair win energy, he urges the US to withstand China on commerce and safety at the side of the UK and its different western allies.

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