BRITAIN must make trade deals with China as it will soon replace the US as global tech leader, Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon said today.

He made the comments as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer brushed off US President Donald Trump’s claims that it was “very dangerous” for him to do business with China.

Mr Trump said: “Well, it’s very dangerous for them to do that, and it’s even more dangerous, I think, for Canada to get into business with China.”

Sir Keir, speaking ahead of his arrival in Shanghai, a massive financial hub, for the next leg of his trip to the country, said: “I think, to be fair, he was probably talking more about Canada than the United Kingdom.”

Mr Gordon told the Morning Star that the president’s “mafioso act” reveals a US administration that “looks nervy and rattled.”

He said that unlike the US, China has continued to “pursue peaceful and mutually beneficial trading relationships… with G7 economies no longer able to accept US trade hegemony in a world system where Trump makes the rules.

“Far from it being ‘dangerous’ for Britain to pursue new trade and investment agreements with China, it is essential for Britain’s future economic and social development that we learn from China’s developments in solar, wind and other renewable energy generation and to open up a future based on new tech industries where China — not the US — is the world-leading power.”

He called on Sir Keir to seek advice from Chinese President Xi Jinping on how to construct a high-speed rail system, pointing out the enormous overspend on HS2 while China has constructed over 40,000 miles of high-speed rail.