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What annoys me with our relationships with both the US and China is that they both result in us selling our R&D to them. We perform well above our size in technology, yet we don't guard our home-grown companies against the predatory antics of these two much larger "partners" .
People ask where the British (or even European) Google, Meta, Tiktok or Huawei is. The answer is that they are in the belly of some tech giant that gobbled them up. If we incubated our small companies more, we'd be competing on a different level.
They have cheaper money so scale. Always has been a problem.