
In the midst of pomp and circumstance, President Trump and the UK’s Prime Minister Kier Starmer announced a major tech trade deal intended to reinforce the two countries’ “unbreakable bond.” Trump charactered the deal as being “very big,” adding “it’s an unbreakable bond we have regardless of what we’re doing today.”
Trump, Starmer sign tech deal to seal ‘unbreakable bond’– www.channelnewsasia.com
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… Britain’s work in wooing the unpredictable Trump on his second state visit seemed to have paid off as he and Starmer signed the partnership boosting ties in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear energy.
At the signing ceremony attended by a host of US tech CEOs, Labour leader Starmer said he and Republican Trump were “leaders who genuinely like each other.”
“It is the biggest investment package of its kind in British history by a country mile,” he added.
Trump said the deal was “very big”, and added of US relations with key NATO ally Britain that “it’s an unbreakable bond we have regardless of what we’re doing today”.