As Britain steps out of EU, it trips on new entanglement
It’s looking a lot harder than fans of the new nationalist politics may have suspected to disassemble our intricately interconnected 21st -century world.
That’s the message emerging in recent days from what might be called a triangle of tension. Caught up in the tussle for global supremacy between superpowers China and the United States, Britain is already finding it a strain to navigate its own path outside the European Union.
The main issues of contention concern trade and technology. But they have arisen against the background of another powerful reminder of global connections: mounting concern in the U.S.,
New tensionsEspionage or protectionism?Stuck in the middle
