"In the US case, three recent examples stand out.
In Davos this week, US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin gave a blunt warning that, if the UK pursued plans for a digital tax that would hit Amazon, Google and other US companies, London would face retaliatory trade tariffs.
It may turn out that the UK follows France’s example and finds a way of defusing the dispute with the US over digital taxes. But Mr Mnuchin’s words were more than a straw in the wind.
Richard Goldberg, who until early January served on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, drew an explicit connection last week between Mr Johnson’s desire for a US-UK trade deal and British loyalty to Washington on big foreign policy issues.
Referring to the Iran nuclear deal, Mr Goldberg said: “The question for prime minister Johnson is: ‘As you are moving towards Brexit . . . what are you going to do post 31 January as you come to Washington to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States?’”
Mr Goldberg added: “It’s absolutely in his interests and the people of Great Britain’s interests to join with President Trump, with the United States, to realign your foreign policy away from Brussels, and to join the maximum pressure campaign to keep all of us safe.”
The third example is the visit to London this month of a US delegation that carried the message that the British government should not jeopardise intelligence co-operation with Washington by permitting Huawei, the Chinese company, to play a part in setting up the UK’s 5G cellular networks."
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In Davos this week, US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin gave a blunt warning that, if the UK pursued plans for a digital tax that would hit Amazon, Google and other US companies, London would face retaliatory trade tariffs.
It may turn out that the UK follows France’s example and finds a way of defusing the dispute with the US over digital taxes. But Mr Mnuchin’s words were more than a straw in the wind.
Richard Goldberg, who until early January served on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, drew an explicit connection last week between Mr Johnson’s desire for a US-UK trade deal and British loyalty to Washington on big foreign policy issues.
Referring to the Iran nuclear deal, Mr Goldberg said: “The question for prime minister Johnson is: ‘As you are moving towards Brexit . . . what are you going to do post 31 January as you come to Washington to negotiate a free trade agreement with the United States?’”
Mr Goldberg added: “It’s absolutely in his interests and the people of Great Britain’s interests to join with President Trump, with the United States, to realign your foreign policy away from Brussels, and to join the maximum pressure campaign to keep all of us safe.”
The third example is the visit to London this month of a US delegation that carried the message that the British government should not jeopardise intelligence co-operation with Washington by permitting Huawei, the Chinese company, to play a part in setting up the UK’s 5G cellular networks."
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