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On Tuesday, Britain refused to join the European Union in threatening a commercial battle with the United States on solid definitions and followed Washington to refuse to sign a global agreement on artificial intelligence, in a sign of Sir Kerr Starmer developed a new foreign policy in President Donald Trump.

Lord Petter Mandleson, the new British ambassador to the United States, He told the Financial Times Britain had to adopt “any openness opportunities as a result of Brexit” and earn a living in the world through “not Europe”.

An early mark on this approach came when the Minister of Trade, Douglas Alexander, told deputies that the United Kingdom would not join the European Union immediately The threat of definition revenge Against the United States, after Trump announced a 25 percent tax on all imports of steel and aluminum.

Alexander said that the steel tariff was not useful until March 12 and that Britain would use time to speak to the Trump administration and evaluate its options.

“Of course we want to avoid a great escalation,” he said. “This is an opportunity for the United Kingdom to practice a wonderful head and a clear feeling of the place where the national interest is.”

The Downing Street did not rule out the retaliatory definitions, but the ministers secretly admit that this step will not have a little impact on the United States and the risk of Britain in the line of more Trump’s tariff.

Alexander said that British steel exports to the United States were about 400 million pounds and that the customs tariff would be a “big blow”, but Downing Street noticed that it was only about 5 percent of British steel exports.

Although the number 10 has left the retaliatory definitions on the table, there was not any of the hadith seen in Brussels “fixed and proportional measures.”

Mandson, who started working in Washington this week, said he remained convinced that Britain’s exit from the European Union “has gave the country’s greatest damage in anything in my life,” but before it will not be reversed.

The Labor Party said that one of its goals was “signing” as an ambassador is to build closer relations between Britain and the United States in artificial intelligence and technology, warning that the European Union has become linked to the rules.

“It is funny to be a working government that discovered the benefits of Britain’s exit from the European Union,” which was found by a veteran diplomat.

However, attempts to “reset” relations with the European Union can be harmed if Brussels considers that Starmer, the Prime Minister, is approaching Washington and reducing the European economic model.

On Tuesday, Britain joined the United States to refuse to sign the Amnesty International International Convention in Paris; The statement was signed by France, China and India from other countries.

Downting Street said that France has been a partner close to areas such as artificial intelligence, but the United Kingdom “was unable to agree on all parts of the leadership declaration” and will only register on the initiatives that are in national interests in the United Kingdom. “

The statement pledged to an “open”, “comprehensive” and “moral” approach to developing artificial intelligence, but US Vice Vice President JD Vance warned the delegates in Paris that many regulations can “kill a transformative industry exactly as is the case.”

A senior UK government official said that Britain chose not to sign the statement because his language did not focus sufficiently on national security and tend more towards focusing on safety and morals.

We have taken a little different approach to the European Union. . . The person added that the character we deal with with artificial intelligence is completely different, “noting that the strategy” opened the door diplomatically “in terms of Britain’s dealings with the United States.

The UK government has sought to develop the Safety Institute of Artificial Intelligence as an organization that focuses on national security, with direct links to the GchQ Intelligence Agency.

The higher numbers on Trump, including Elon Musk, were strongly criticized by the Joe Biden administration on “wake up” concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence, including bias and wrong information, but it is deeply involved in efforts to ensure the promotion of the technology of the Western national security novel. Interests.