London (AP) – After dignity, it’s time for politics.
President Donald Trump I’ll meet Prime Minister Kiel Thursday, the final day for the US leader National visit to the UKwith potentially challenging topics on technology investments, steel tariffs, and agendas.
President and First Lady Melania Trump Charles III Queen Camilla at Windsor Castle on Wednesday All pageants that a monarchy can convene: Golden carriages, scar-coloured soldiers, cannon salutes, glittering banquets in the hall of grand rituals.
British officials have made the trip a buzz with the finest things Trump enjoys. It is an “unprecedented” second state visit for US leaders, featuring the largest military honor guards gathered on such occasions.
On Thursday it’s not fortunate to welcome the president to the Checkers, a 16th-century manners house in northwest London that serves as a country hideaway for British leaders.
Trump’s British host wants to celebrate the strength of US-UK relations 250 years after his rocky start in 1776. Trump was welcomed by the ritual honor guards nodded to the president’s Scottish heritage and showed items from the archives of wartime leader Winston Churchill.
Dover Sole’s lunch is followed by Key Lime Pie, with displays by the Red Devils Army Parachute Team.
Transatlantic Technology Partnership
To coincide with the visit, the UK said that the US company has pledged to invest £150 billion ($20.4 billion) in the UK over the next decade, including £90 billion ($122 billion) from investment firm Blackstone. Also, investments flow in the opposite way, including around $30 billion from US pharmaceutical company GSK.
The two leaders sign a “technology prosperity deal” that says British officials will bring thousands of jobs and billions of investments in artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear energy.
This includes the UK division of Stargate, a Trump-backed AI infrastructure project led by Openai, where the host of AI data centers, centered on U.S. companies, has announced a £31 billion ($42 billion) investment in the UK AI sector.
British officials say they have not agreed to abolish digital services tax and internet regulations under water to get transactions, but details have not been released yet.
The British government has learned that the devil is in detail when it comes to dealing with the US administration. In May, Priority and Trump attacked a trade deal that cuts US tariffs on the UK’s major auto and aerospace industries.
However, despite promises that the May issue will be resolved within weeks, talks about the mandatory reduction in steel and aluminum from the current 25% level have stagnated.
The UK Chamber of Commerce said it was “greeted with disappointment” by the UK steel industry.
Potentially troublesome conversations
The priority is to make a successful state visit to balance the bad news that saw the loss of not just the ambassador but also the deputy prime minister. Angela Rayner – Those who have quit tax errors in home buying – and senior aides. Fourteen months after winning the landslide election victory, priorities struggle to launch a UK slump, and his Labour party is behind the polls.
Chicago’s World Affairs Council Chairman Leslie Vinjamuri said the trip was “a much more difficult visit for the Prime Minister than the US president.”
For Trump, “This works well at home and is doing well abroad. It’s almost entirely in President Trump’s advantage that the British president stands up to Britain and is celebrated by British facilities,” she said.
For great questions, priorities are required Jeffrey Epstein When he and Trump hold a press conference on the checker. A few days before the state visit, Starme The UK’s US ambassador was fired. Peter Mandelson over the envoy’s past friendship with a convicted sex offender.
Questions about Epstein masked Trump’s last visit to the UK in July. When they were questioned by journalists, Trump repeatedly studded questions about Epstein as his government faced pressure to release government records from his hometown and release government records in a current investor criminal case that he said he committed suicide in 2019.
Difficult discussions in the Middle East Ukraine
There are also potentially difficult conversations Ukraine and middle east.
Priorities have played a major role in Europe’s efforts to strengthen US support for Ukraine. Trump has expressed his dissatisfaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but has not done anything good with the threat of imposing new sanctions on Russia to avoid peace talks. When he left Washington for the UK on Tuesday, it appeared Trump told Ukrainian President Voldymee Zelensky, “He’s going to have to make a deal.”
Last week’s Russian NATO member Drone invasion of Poland He elicited strong criticism from NATO allies in Europe, pledging more planes and military pledges for the eastern flank of the bloc. Trump has reduced the severity of the incident and meditated on it. It might have been a mistake. ”
The King gave Trump a gentle nudge in his state banquet speech on the strength of transatlantic relations. “Just despotism threatens Europe once again, we and our allies will stand together in support of Ukraine, blocking the invasion and ensuring peace.”
Starme also said that he will leave Trump in the Israeli war in Gaza and that the UK will be official Recognize the Palestinian state At the United Nations later this month.
Trump threatened to punish Canada during trade negotiations for making similar moves.
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AP Technology Writer Matt O’Brien contributed to this story.
