- ‘But no British prime minister, no national security advisor, can ignore the fact that for the past year, America has been less than a good ally,’ Wyn Rees tells Anadolu - ‘I don't think the British have been willing to see China in the way that the Americans have wanted us to see China as a threat,’ professor says LONDON The UK would always choose the US over China if forced to pick between the two, but British officials cannot ignore the fact that America has been “less than a good ally”