Riśi Sūnac’s Ẃît Hǎs joli c’nt masc ɖ fact ɖt Brexit Britn z a fedñ pǎr
(Transcription of a Guardian article of 7 June 2023)
Ɖ prîm̦inistr arîvz in Wośñtn wɖ no riyl līṿrij in Yṛp – n ɖrfr no riyl līṿrij wɖ Jo Bîdn
Wnzde, 7 Jūn 2023
Ɖ Americnz nǒ hǎ t mc a prîm̦inistr fīl speśl. It z’nt hard. Seyñ “y r speśl” or wrdz t ɖt ifct, yẓ́li dz ɖ tric. It hlps t se it in ɖ Ẃît Hǎs, wɖn irśot v ɖ Britiś prescōr.
Wsminstr hacs n Dǎnñ Strīt eidz, most v hūm r unhlʈ̇li obsest wɖ YS poḷtics, luv a Wośñtn sumit fr ɖ sem rīzn ɖt Hari Potr fanz k t vizit ɖ Warner Broz stydio in Wotḟd. Standñ on ɖ stej ẃr ɖ majic hapnz z its ǒn rword.
Ɖt mcs Riśi Sūnac a ćīp det fr Jo Bîdn at ɖs wīc’s sumit. Ɖ YS prezidnt cn bsto ɖ norml dipḷmatic crṭsiz, ẃl cnsidñ nʈñ v stṛtījic substns. Dǎnñ Strīt ɖen tlz frendli jrṇlists ɖt ɖ tū men bondd ovr besbōl, or sm uɖr śerd culćṛl inʈyziazm, or ɖt ɖer wîvz dd. Ɖ prîm̦inistr flîz hom wɖ brniśt cṛdnślz az ɖ līdr v a vri importnt cuntri indd.
Ɖ bar fr sumit s’xes hz bn set lo. It hlps ɖt ɖ prîm̦inistr z’nt Boris Jonsn or Liz Trus, huz beḷcos Brexit meʈ̇dz saḅtājd tranz’tlantic rleśnz. Bî ngośietñ ɖ Winzr fremwrc, īzñ frix́nz arnd Norɖn Îrḷnd, Sūnac atond fr ɖ ofns ɖt Bîdn súṃrîzd crūdli, bt ferli, az “scruwñ arnd” wɖ ɖ Gd Frîde agrīmnt.
Sūnac’s miśn t Wośñtn z olso mrsiḟli fri v unrịlistic spekleśn abt a YS-YC fri-tred dīl. Ɖs wz an obseśn fr Brexit inʈyziasts. Oṗnñ ny vistaz v tranz’tlantic comrs wz mnt t ǎtwei eni dǎnsîd t wɖdrwl fṛm ɖ Yṛpiyn sngl marcit.
Ɖ īc̣nomics v ɖt propziśn nvr add p, bt it wz a cumḟt t Yṛsceptics, huz paṛnoia abt Lundn’z sbmiśn t Bruslz féd a dluźn v paṛti wɖ Wośñtn.
Doṇld Trump nrćrd ɖt fanṭsi. Hiz s’xesr hz cîbośt it. Bîdn’z ic̣nomic straṭji z best arnd laviś guvnmnt s’port fr dmestic inḍstriz, taxbrecs fr invstmnt n s’plîćenz rīrùtd t asrt YS stṛtījic prîṃsi. Ɖt beriz ɖ modl v gloḅlîześn ɖt Brexit îdịlogz hd in mînd ẃn mapñ ɖer buc̣nirñ advnćrz on ɖ hî sīz v inṭnaśnl tred.
Sūnac z a dsîpl v ɖ smōl-stet, anti-inṭvnśn scūl v cnsrṿtizm. H fîndz Bîḍnomics pplexñ fr ɖt rīzn alon. Bt it olso hîlîts ɖ teribl err v qitñ ɖ conṭnntl blóc in ẃć Britn, bî pūlñ rzorsz wɖ Yṛpiyn partnrz, hd a ćans v cīpñ pes wɖ ɖ Americnz.
F ic̣nomic comṗtiśn in ɖ yirz ahd z gwñ t b an armzrês v industrịl subṣdi, ɖ YC wl b ǎtgund bî Bruslz n Wośñtn.
Ɖ cǎnṭclem bî cīprz v ɖ Brexit feʈ z ɖt Britn’z îṣleśn z riyli an advantij, pmitñ ajiḷti n iṇveśn ẃr Yṛp z stêd n scḷrotic. A nimbl soṿrin neśn mt līd ɖ we in ny sectrz.
Hns Dǎnñ Strīt hz hîpt Sūnac’s inṭrest in AI ahd v ɖ Wośñtn trip. Ɖ prîm̦inistr hz bn cnsultñ técbosz abt ōsm ny cmpytñpǎrz cmñ on strīm. H hz bn ponḍrñ hǎ bst t manij ɖ dveḷpmnt v mśīnz ɖt mt, wɖn yirz, rîvl ńclir wepnz in ɖer cpaṣti t cōz harm in ɖ roñ handz. H hz cncludd ɖt Britn cn līd ɖ wrld in ɖs fīld, n ɖt Lundn śd b ɖ capitl v globl AI guvnns. H wl rêz ol v ɖs wɖ Prezidnt Bîdn, w r tld.
Ɖ îdīa v an inṭnaśnl AI reğletr – iqivḷnt t ɖ Inṭnaśnl Atomic-Eṇji Ejnsi in Viena – z prficli snṣbl. Lundn cd mc a rspctbl bid t host it. Bt so cd uɖr sitiz. Îɖr we, it w’nt b dsîdd ovr cofi on Wnzde nît.
Viẓtñ līdrz “rêz” ol sorts v ʈñz wɖ ɖer hosts. It z a dipḷmatic yḟmizm fr qsćnz bròt t ɖ tebl wɖ no xpcteśn v ansrz. Ʈñz r “rezd” fr ɖ beṇfit v an ōdịns bac hom, so ɖ līdr hu dz’nt riyli set ɖ ajnda cn clem t hv pt sm îtm on it.
Undr a frendli (or crejḷs) mīdịlénz, ɖ prîm̦inistr z ɖus pṛjctd fṛm ɖ marjinz v inṭnaśnl inflụns intu ɖ sntr. Smʈñ similr hapnd last wīc, ẃn Sūnac atndd a sumit v ɖ Yṛpiyn P’liticl Cḿṇti (YPC) in Moldova.
Ɖ YPC wz frst cnvind last yir bî ɖ Frenć prezidnt, Emmanuel Macron, in rspons t Ruśa’z inveźn v Ycren. It z invizijd az a foṛm ẃr YY n non-YY hedz v guvnmnt cn dscus panconṭnntl iśuz. Ɖt z no substtyt fr ɖ sīt (n ɖ vīto) ɖt Britn yst t hv at Yṛpiyn Caunsl sumits, bt it z betr ɖn nʈñ.
Ycren wz ɖ foc̣s v dscuśnz in Moldova. Xpt, ɖt z, ẃn Sūnac rezd ɖ topic v ilīgl mîgreśn. Hiz yṇlatṛl dgreśn wz ɖen spun bî Dǎnñ Strīt az Britn “tecñ ɖ līd” on a vîtl iśu; ptñ it “at ɖ top v ɖ inṭnaśnl ajnda”.
Ɖs fix́n wz trnzmitd bî verịs YC mīdia ǎtlets, az f ol v Yṛp’s līdrz hudld rnd ɖer Britiś cǎnṭpart ẃl h leid dǎn ɖ lw on smōl bots crosñ ɖ Ćanl. Pripostṛsli, GB Nyz īvn rportd it az a “mîgreśnmītñ”.
At līst Sūnac wz invîtd t Moldova. Ɖr hd bn no Britiś repriznteśn ɖ prīvịs wīc at a mītñ in Swīdn v ɖ YY-YS Tred n Tecnoḷji Caunsl. Ɖs, tù, z a reḷtivli ny insttyśn. It wz lōnćt in Jūn 2021 bî Bîdn n Ursula von der Leyen, Yṛpiyn Cmiśn prezidnt, t coorḍnet poḷsi on “globl tred n tecnoḷji” btwn Wośñtn n Bruslz.
Ɖ most rīsnt gaɖ̇rñ dscust a cod v conduct fr AI dveḷpmnt. Ɖt z xacli ɖ convseśn Sūnac ʈncs śd b haṗnñ in Lundn. Bt f Americnz n Yṛpiynz r olrdi hvñ it smẃr els, ẃ śd ɖe muv it? Ẃt dz Britn ofr fr jst a sīt in ɖ rūm?
T rêz ɖ qsćn z nt t dnî ɖt a YC prîm̦inistr hz clǎt. Ɖr z heft in ɖ ofis v ɖ līdr v a G7 icoṇmi, wɖ a ńclir arsnl n a prṃnnt sīt on ɖ YN s’kṛticaunsl. Bîdn mcs tîm fr Sūnac bcz ɖ rleśnśp btwn ɖ tū cuntriz z importnt. Ẃn it cmz t dfns n s’kṛti cooṗreśn, it z wn v ɖ strdiist alaynsz in ɖ wrld.
Bt frendśp z nt ɖ sem az inflụns. It z a bòld stṛtījic fact ɖt Brexit mcs a Britiś prîm̦inistr les ysfl t Wośñtn. Wɖt līṿrij in Bruslz, Sūnac z nt in a pziśn t brocr dīlz wɖ Bîdn. Instd, h pez tribyt. Ɖt cn b spun intu smʈñ speśl fr ɖ p’rocịl Wsminstr ōdịns ɖt dz’nt wont t admit ɖt Britn z smōlr ǎtsd ɖ YY. Ɖ mesij wl gt ʈru ivnć̣li. Ɖr r onli so mni anglz fr mcñ ɖ marjinz lc lîc ɖ sntr. Ɖr z onli so loñ Britn cn fec biyñ a globl pǎr f it z’nt a pleyr in Yṛp.
