Comprehensive BBC and Reuters report: US President Trump arrived in London, England with his wife Melaniya on the 3rd for a three-day state visit. Analysts believe that Brexit and Huawei are the main highlights of Trump’s trip, but British Prime Minister Teresa May will officially resign as a Conservative Party leader on the 7th, but only to remain prime minister to the new leader of the Conservative Party. It is difficult to make progress on the issue of Brexit; the multi-party game in the context of Sino-US trade war is complicated, and blocking Huawei has become the most important sensitive topic between the United States and Britain.

Trump’s visit to Britain is from 3rd to 5th. The schedule is very close. He will meet with Queen Elizabeth II and other royal members to attend a state dinner, visit Westminster Abbey, and hold with Teresa May. Bilateral meetings. On the last day of the visit, Trump will attend the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landing in Portsmouth, a port city in the south of England.

Not meeting one-on-one with Teresa May

The meeting between Trump and Teresa May on the 4th was the focus of the visit to the UK, but on Monday, 10 Downing Street admitted that the bilateral leaders would not hold one-on-one talks and would only attend extended meetings attended by bilateral representatives. Although the British Prime Minister’s Office stressed that such an arrangement is nothing unusual, the Independent reported that Trump did not meet privately with Teresa May because the US President thought that the coming British Prime Minister would be a “lame duck”. May turn to leave the time to the hot successor, former British foreign minister Johnson.

According to Reuters, Huawei will be one of the main topics in the bilateral meeting held on the 4th. It is reported that Trump will warn the United Kingdom that if it does not prevent the Chinese telecom equipment company Huawei from participating in the construction of 5G networks in line with the United States, the security cooperation between the United States and Britain will be weakened, especially the information cooperation may be interrupted.

British Foreign Secretary Hou Junwei said on the 3rd that the United States is very concerned about the use of China’s Huawei equipment risk on 5G networks. “We have not yet made a final decision, but we have also made it clear that we are considering technical and strategic issues, namely how to ensure that third countries cannot use 5G to monitor our and absolutely important technologies but not rely on third countries.”

German media: Europe should not blindly follow the United States

US Secretary of State Pompeo earlier suggested that Britain should change its attitude toward the Chinese government and Huawei, and regard China as a major threat to the West, no less serious than the threat of the Soviet Union to the West during the Cold War. Chen Wen, the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom, warned that if Huawei is prohibited from entering the UK 5G network, China’s investment in the UK may be significantly affected.  In her interview with the BBC, she said that the UK should make a decision based on national interests. Huawei’s investment in the UK is “a vote of trust in the British economy.”

It is worth noting that, just as Trump tried to pressure Huawei to block Huawei, BT operator EE had used Huawei equipment to open 5G commercial services for the first time in the UK on May 30.  Hanngen, the former head of the UK’s government communications headquarters, wrote in the Financial Times that some people think that using Chinese technology in 5G network deployment means unacceptable risks, which is completely “nonsense.” The German “Daily Mirror” published an article stressing that “Europeans should not blindly follow Trump’s footsteps”. The security standards surrounding 5G must be discussed, but such discussions should be carried out at the content level with neutral cybersecurity experts. And “not abused as a handle to manipulate international trade disputes.”

 It is difficult to have substantial gains in visiting Britain

US government officials said earlier at the briefing that Trump’s visit was a very important visit and a good opportunity to highlight the special relationship between the United States and Britain.  But analysts generally believe that, given that Teresa May is about to leave, the new prime minister’s dispute is full of uncertainty, and the UK’s Brexit deadlock is hard to break. Trump’s visit is hard to materially harvest. Gardieri, assistant professor at St. Anselm College, said that the current political arena in the UK is in chaos. Teresa May’s successor has not yet been determined. It is difficult for Trump to visit Britain in this embarrassing situation. Imagine that you will achieve any substantial results. The US President and Deputy Director of the Congressional Research Center, Mahafi, believes that since the United Kingdom is still in the quagmire of Brexit, the United States and Britain can only stay at the letter level if they have any bilateral cooperation plans.