Is the Special Relationship rock solid

Since Brexit, the UK has been consistent to build a relationship with the US. This so-called relationship
is named the “Special Relationship”. Thus, is the Special Relationship rock solid. We will first explain
that at first sight it seems like numerous factors are in favor of a great relationship between the UK
and the US. Then, we will delve deeper in the facts that imply that this relationship is one-sided and
therefore not rock solid.

Firstly, the relationship between the UK and US seems to be improving. In fact, in 2004, the US had
invested in the UK far more than other countries. Furthermore, since the Windsor Framework with
between NI and the UK, the US trusts more the UK. Nowadays, the US and the UK have a deal on AI
which is one of the most important deals as of AI is an important innovation.

Yes

 Britain tries hard to have a great relationship with the US

 British people admires America’s success
 Biden visits the UK
 US-Uk deal on AI

Secondly, the special relationship is mainly supported by the British people and politicians whereas
the US is more reluctant to this relationship.

No

 Brexit implies less access to the European Union advances such as AI

 Doc 2: “it doesn’t even exist”
 The US is indifferent to conflicts between Britain and other countries
 One-sided relationship
 Biden seems to prefer EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen

Much of the special relationship has been based on personal relations; Churchill/Roosevelt,
Macmillan/Kennedy, Thatcher/Reagan, Blair/Clinton and now Blair/Bush. Friendship did not prevent
partners from having diverging attitudes: Eisenhower forced Britain out of Egypt after the Suez-Sinai
War, and Harold Wilson refused to join the USA in the Vietnam War. In 1983, the US invasion of
Grenada, a Commonwealth Island, after a Cuban-backed coup, strained the “special relationship”.

In 2004, the US was the biggest single investor in the UK, and vice versa, both countries deriving
mutual economic benefit. Cultural ties are also a key element to this relationship. President Clinton
and many of his advisers studied at Oxford University, just as many of Blair’s advisers hold degrees
from MIT or Harvard, which explains for example some American-style decisions of political reforms
in Britain and the preference for American style free markets rather than the European social model.
It's not the free trade agreement London dreamed of, but British prime minister Rishi Sunak and US
president Joe Biden announced a new economic partnership in Washington on Thursday and
celebrated a renewed friendship.

“We can count on each other with full trust” one of them said during a joint press conference while
the other assured that America had no “closer ally” than the UK.

This “Atlantic declaration” presented on Friday by both leaders prevents a reinforced cooperation in
the defense industry, in the civil nuclear and in the supply of essential metals for the energetic
transition. On this last point, Rishi Sunak got from the White House that the British industrials partly
profited of the gigantic subvention plan of Joe Biden, the “Inflation Reduction Act”, that promotes
without complexness the “made in America”.