Rachelle Akuffo, the Washington DC-based anchor of CGTN's Global Business program, speaks to Marc Ross, the founder of Caracal, about the significance of the meeting between Boris Johnson and Joe Biden.
Highlights:
+ First foreign meeting for President Biden outside DC is with the UK
+ Continued talk of the special relationship, but more and more this is the essential relationship
+ Economically, the UK is one of the largest investors in the United States, and the US has used London's financial services as a gateway to Europe
+ Biden trip to Europe focused on COVID, climate, cyber, and China
+ The need to open business travel corridors between the US and Europe
+ G7 nations committed to sending athletes to Tokyo Summer Olympics