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(NewsNation) — After a day of pageantry, President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are talking business.
The 2 began bilateral talks astatine Chequers, Starmer’s state residence, connected Thursday, marking the 2nd time of Trump's historical 2nd authorities sojourn — a archetypal for a U.S. president. He spent Wednesday astatine Windsor Castle with the reigning monarch, King Charles III, and his wife, Queen Camilla.
An announcement of large U.S. investments and a caller tech concern with Britain is expected Thursday.
The 2 leaders volition motion a “tech prosperity deal” that U.K. officials person said volition bring thousands of jobs and billions successful concern successful artificial intelligence, quantum computing and atomic energy. The $200 cardinal woody would found a U.K. limb of Stargate and cement U.S. concern successful Britain's AI sector.
British officials said they person not agreed to scrap a integer services taxation oregon h2o down net regularisation to get the deal, immoderate details of which person yet to beryllium announced.
CEOs from Apple, Nvidia, Blackstone and OpenAI are scheduled to be a concern leaders' reception with Starmer connected Thursday.
Many of those CEOs besides attended a banquet Wednesday hosted by Charles and Camilla, wherever Trump and the monarch exchanged praises.
"This is genuinely 1 of the highest honors of my life," Trump said. "Such respect for you, and specified respect for your country. For galore decades, his majesty the King has epitomized the fortitude, nobility and the tone of the British monarchy and the British people."
Ahead of Trump and Starmer's Thursday talks, Charles urged the U.S. and the U.K. to basal unneurotic against Russian hostility.
"In 2 satellite wars, we've fought unneurotic to decision the forces of tyranny," helium said. "Today, arsenic tyranny erstwhile again threatens Europe, we and our allies basal unneurotic successful enactment of Ukraine and to deter aggression and unafraid peace."
Trump and Starmer are apt to sermon the wars successful Ukraine and Gaza, though their views disagree connected Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip and the severity of Russian President Vladimir Putin's caller moves targeting Ukraine.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
