A new US-UK technology partnership is essential to stopping China from achieving technological dominance over the west in crucial fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology, the UK’s ambassador to the US has warned.
Lord Peter Mandelson said that if China won the race for technological supremacy in the coming decades it would affect “every facet of our lives”. He compared a planned tech pact with the US to the cold war treaties that created the London’s uniquely close security ties to Washington.
“Only America has the capability, wealth and determination to compete with China technologically,” he said in a lecture on the future of the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with America on Saturday.
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