A dash of pomp and a dose of politics are on the agenda during a stopover visit to the U.K. where U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss the environment with King Charles III and the war in Ukraine with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Biden flies to London on Sunday on his way to a NATO summit in Lithuania. He is scheduled to hold talks with Sunak at 10 Downing Street on Monday before heading to Windsor Castle to meet Charles for the first time since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
"That is an area where the U.S. is a little bit more hesitant than a lot of other NATO allies," said Julie Norman, co-director of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London. "There might be some closed-door discussions about where the U.K. is on that before going into the whole meeting."
Biden faces unease from allies including Britain about his decision to give Ukraine cluster bombs, which are banned under a convention signed by more than 120 countries, including the U.K. Sunak said Saturday that Britain "discourages their use." The president, who proudly celebrates his Irish roots, was especially concerned about the impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland's peace process. Washington was relieved when Britain and the EU struck a deal in February to settle a thorny dispute over trade rules for Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with an EU member.
That was some consolation for Britain's failure to get a free trade deal with the U.S., a now-buried dream of Brexit supporters . Charles doesn't have the star power of his mother, who met 13 American presidents and made more than 100 state visits during her 70 years on the throne. But he has built up a reputation as an environmental campaigner, fighting to protect wildlife and combat climate change long before it became popular.
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