First on Fox: As President Donald Trump A new report warns that Britain must reconsider its “special relationship” strategy or potentially be phased out in Washington.
Darren Spinck, a researcher at the Henry Jackson Society, warned that Trump will not do “business” as usual under Trump’s leadership, and that the “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom is no longer taken for granted. To be a key ally, the UK must accept Trump’s “deal” approach to foreign policy, Spinck said in a new report.
The report notes that “option not to retaliate” tariffs on steel and aluminum in the Trump era may indicate “a strategic patience that may facilitate bilateral negotiations.” It outlines the steps Prime Minister Keir Starmer It may be consistent with the Trump administration and propose a US-UK free trade agreement that includes deeper security cooperation and a strong stance on China.
Trump recently imposed a 10% full tariff on foreign countries and suspended his earlier tougher levy on every country outside China.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer leads the Labor Party to the left. (Carl Court/Pool via Reuters/Archive Photo)
Another avenue could involve the United Kingdom seeking to join the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) of the North American Trade Group to deepen economic ties with the United States, the report suggests.
The report also urges British Labor leaders to “reduce business dependence on China rather than deepen their dependence,” warning that economic ties with Beijing could form a close U.S.-U.S. ties under Trump.
Spinck compared the Trump administration’s focus with the Starmer administration’s preference for “multilateral diplomacy, progressive trade policy and European security commitments” and focused on “bilateralism, economic nationalism and Indo-Pacific security.”
“This policy gap threatens transatlantic cohesion and weakens their collective action capabilities against ordinary opponents, especially China,” he warned.
Divergent China’s policyNATO promises and Indo-Pacific strategy could erode five-eye intelligence sharing, which is key to UK national security.
Spinck called on the UK government to reach an agreement with the U.S. to address the White House’s digital privacy concerns, especially as the UK ordered Apple to grant security agencies access to encrypted cloud data, and established a mineral mining partnership to strengthen key supply chains.
According to Spink, although the last conservative government in the UK saw China as the “biggest national threat”, the current liberal leaders “reversed the process of the first three Conservative governments and tried to strengthen economic ties with Beijing.”
He said the UK recently promoted Beijing’s access to Western capital markets and reestablished the bilateral framework with China’s bilateral framework on industrial, trade and energy policies.
“It must be doubted why London seems to be eager to expand economic ties with China – a country that has been widely criticized for its human rights record – and the UK’s development financial institutions are less inclined to support international infrastructure development or mining projects in other regions.”
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The report said the growing relationship between Britain and China is the reason for the US’s attention. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via Reuters)
“As the Trump administration attempts to further accelerate the U.S. decouple from the targeted CCP economic and technical sectors, the U.S. believes that the Labor government’s clear reconciliation with Beijing, after years of cautious relations, could unnecessarily complicate “professional relations” after PRC’s 2020 violation of the SINO-BRITISH joint announcement in 2020.
He said that if the United States and Britain do not comply with Chinese policies, key issues such as peace agreements between Russia and Ukraine “requires transatlantic cooperation”, such as “risk.”
According to Spinck, the UK must also shelve its differences on U.S. domestic policy due to a more urgent need for security cooperation.
“As the Labor administration works with President Trump’s administration, it should be aware of its perceptions about various policies including immigration, climate policy, digital privacy and welfare,” he wrote.
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Such “fractures”, such as the UK government’s need for backdoor access to Apple’s crypto cloud storage, “has begun to define the overall relationship between the two allies, thus affecting the potential for foreign policy consistency.”
“Updating these cultural differences requires shifting to a more transactional model of foreign policy cooperation. The UK needs to play an active role in re-setting this agenda, pushing domestic ideological issues to the edge in support of solid, mutually beneficial measures.”
Britain could also show goodwill by taking a tougher diplomatic stance against Iran. Spinck urged London to help close the “transatlantic divide” of Iran’s policy, saying it “disrupted the attempt to develop a coherent approach to stop Iran’s nuclear progress”.
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Despite the U.S. withdrawing and imposing full sanctions from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Britain remains a political party that refuses to trigger robbery sanctions – even after reports of Iran violating the deal and enriching uranium to near-weapon level.
Spink also urged Britain to join the United States to designate Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. He believes such a move “will also be seen as a victory for Trump’s policy over Iran, which will leave Britain without paying any price and will generate a lot of goodwill in Washington, D.C.,” he said.
