lining up in beijing, striking deals for rare earth minerals. the past week the president of the democratic republic of the congo was in china striking a deal for exclusivity for cop or, uranium and cobalt. in the past several weeks, xi has met with leaders from sierra leone, eritrea, ethiopia. meanwhile, in the united states the biden administration is working on the next drag queen digital the ambassador and telling us they are going to outlaw natural gas stoves. but the very components america needs to achieve biden s green utopia are being monopolized by china, making us even more dependent on beijing. here to break it all down for us is former national security adviser for president trump, ambassador robert robert o brien. ambassador, thanks so much for joining us. you know, the concern that i have is you have a very sleepy joe biden. you don t have somebody who s
beijing striking deals for rare earth minerals. this past week the president of the democratic republic of the congo was in china to strike a deal for exclusivity for copper, uranium and cobalt. in the past several weeks, meeting with several leaders. meanwhile in the united states the biden administration is telling us they will outlaw natural gas stoves. the very components america needs to achieve biden s green utopia are being monopolized by china making us more dependent on beijing. here to break it all down for us as a former national security advisor for president trump, ambassador robert o brien. thank you for joining us. the concern that i have is you have a very sleepy joe biden. you don t have someone on the move striking deals and paying
with significant consequences for production of electric vehicles, batteries and microchips. in this new world, does the uk have a strategy? china calls the g7 a clique as its members look to reverse their reliance on the world s second biggest economy. but are the world s big industrialised democracies just too dependent on beijing s exports? it s going to add way more to annual gdp charges for the world than anywhere in the ex british colonies, so ijust don t get anywhere in the ex british colonies, so i just don t get the scale anywhere in the ex british colonies, so ijust don t get the scale of this sort of popularity thing about
it might not be safe in the future. but could the uk chart a third way, refusing to pick sides? emmanuel macron has urged the european union not to be a follower in a us economic cold war on beijing. but can britain, with its ingrained transatlanticism, its special relationship, realistically resist us economic pressure? i think the biden administration expects basically everybody to totally follow their line. some combination of we ll bully you and we re right and therefore you ll fall in line. i think they re going to be mildly disappointed or surprised when it turns out that even the uk, evenjapan, of course, germany and france, even australia are not going to toe the us line. i think if the uk aligns with others and the others in the eu stand up to the us in a clear way, a somewhat coordinated way, it will be better for all and it will be less likely for the us to bully or retaliate.
autocracies, russia and china. the relationship between china and the usa is now fraught. the us and europe are trying to unpick decades of economic reliance on beijing. but long gone are the days when china was simply a workshop for cheap textiles and goods. it has strategically planned its technological rise for the design and export of ever more sophisticated high tech niches. partly because of security and fears over taiwan, and partly because the effect of the china trade shock on jobs and manufacturing areas in the west, that reliance is being unpicked. there has been a debate within the g7 about whether this should be decoupling from china, or something softer, known as derisking. later in the programme we will assess the government s new strategy on semiconductor chips as the us & eu pour tens of billions into new plants to decrease reliance on east asia. but first, should the ukjoin the us in distancing itself from the beijing behemoth? here s ben with the second part of our s