In Winston Churchill's vision, the U.S.-British relationship must and would endure because both are liberal, English-speaking democracies. If Britain is being Europeanized, the U.S. could staycloser to it by Europeanizing itself, but to adopt this visionwould be a tremendous defeat for the assertive, liberal values thatlay at the heart of Churchill's vision and on which theAnglo-American alliance was founded.
Der chinesische Außenminister Wang Yi und US-Außenminister Antony Blinken haben am Sonntag ein Telefongespräch geführt und sich über die Lage in Afghanistan und die Beziehungen zwischen China und den USA ausgetauscht.