China has warned Britain over the terms of Sir Keir Starmer’s trade deal with the US, claiming it may force UK companies to cut Chinese products out of their supply chains.
Under the deal, the US and UK will co-operate on security aspects of their economic relationship — understood by most analysts to mean that both countries would try to reduce their economies’ reliance on Chinese money and components, particularly in tech products.
China has regularly hit out at what it calls “scaremongering” over allegations that it would use products such as computer chips and its broader investments in the UK as political, or even military, tools.
A semiconductor production facility in Beijing. The US and Britain want to strengthen their domestic semiconductor industries to end their reliance on China
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Now it said it feared that the deal may breach what it calls a “basic principle” that bilateral
