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Britain’s leader Rishi Sunak wrapped up a two-day visit to Washington on Thursday, his fourth encounter with President Joe Biden in as many months. But before checking in with his American counterpart, the cricket-loving prime minister caught a baseball game.
At the White House, Sunak and Biden held wide-ranging talks dominated by global security, the dangers (and benefits) of artificial intelligence and economic concerns from Ukraine to stubbornly high inflation.
The two leaders said at a joint White House news conference that they had reached an agreement that would improve cooperation between the two countries on clean energy transition, development of emerging technologies, and protecting technology that is critical to national security.
„The global economy is undergoing the greatest transformation that has occurred since the industrial revolution,“ Biden said at the start of their Oval Office meeting.
Sunak arrived in the U.S. capital late Tuesday. On Wednesday, the first full day of his trip, he laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, met with business leaders and senior lawmakers, and attended a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks, although he declined a chance to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
“As you guys know, my sport is more cricket than baseball,” Sunak told British reporters on the flight over.A quick recap on Rishi Sunak: Who is he?
Sunak, 43, is the fifth British prime minister to hold the role in seven years. He replaced Liz Truss, who latest all but two months on the job. She succeeded the mercurial, gaffe-prone and COVID-lockdown avoiding Boris Johnson. Sunak is Britain’s first leader of South Asian descent, its first Hindu prime minister, and the nation’s first leader of color. He is the youngest prime minister of modern times.
A former investment banker and finance minister, Sunak is Oxford-brainy (and Stanford, where he got his MBA), married to the heir to one of India’s wealthiest technology company fortunes and, despite his globalist credentials, supported Britain’s politically populist decision to the leave the European Union, known as Brexit.
