![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2226746878-1024x683.jpg\")
Prime Minister Keir Starmer did extremely well to ensure Britain was the first to strike the new \u201cGeneral Terms of an Economic Prosperity Deal\u201d with the U.S. | Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\nThis new partnership has to be about more than tariffs. It must be about technology. As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said: \u201cTechnology is the power in superpower.\u201d Britain and America have the building blocks for a formidable technology alliance: The U.S. boasts the world\u2019s largest tech firms, deepest venture markets and broadest innovation ecosystem. Meanwhile, Britain is home to Europe\u2019s most dynamic AI cluster, a world-leading life sciences base, universities of global caliber and the City of London\u2019s unrivaled capital markets.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Keir Starmer did extremely well to ensure Britain was the first to strike the new \u201cGeneral Terms of an Economic Prosperity Deal\u201d with the U.S. | Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Alone, each is strong. Together, they could set the standards of the century.<\/p>\n
Therefore, the task in London this week is two-fold: First, enlarge the future. That means binding our nations around joint missions in AI, clean energy, biotech and digital trade. It means creating shared standards for data, procurement, labor and regulation. It means linking our research, finance and industrial capacity, so that when the world writes its rules, it is our rules \u2014 and our values \u2014 that prevail.<\/p>\n
Second, we must harness the promise of tomorrow to tackle the perils of protectionism today. Britain should press Trump to grant it the same terms as the EU in order to end the tariff uncertainty that still confronts our key industries, and provide the predictability investors require. Tariff relief alone isn\u2019t enough; what matters is tariff parity \u2014 and the confidence it can unlock.<\/p>\n
So, let us be clear. This visit isn\u2019t about gilded dinners or ceremonial splendor \u2014 though that is what will capture the media\u2019s attention. Rather, it is about whether Britain and America can summon the imagination to expand the future and the discipline to settle the past. If we succeed, we\u2019ll not only close the tariff gap but anchor Western leadership in the technologies that matter most.<\/p>\n
The lesson from history couldn\u2019t be clearer: If we don\u2019t shape the future, others will. And if technology is, indeed, \u201cthe power in superpower,\u201d then only a U.S.-U.K. bargain, forged during this state visit, can safeguard Western leadership through tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This new partnership has to be about more than tariffs. It must be about technology. As former Google…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[22707,1942,521,15193,1193,1395,6215,5293,32,806,1197,807,479,53,1201,6862,6717,15,49,978,659,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-425256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-armaments","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-asia-economy","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-diplomacy","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-industry","18":"tag-investment","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-tariffs","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-trade","23":"tag-trade-agreements","24":"tag-transatlantic-relations","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115206136594371765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}