Traditionally, the British prime minister's first foreign visit is to Washington, but Gordon Brown chose dinner with Angela Merkel instead. Is this the beginning of the end of the special relationship between the UK and the US?
Besides, Douglas Alexander, secretary of state for international development and Gordon Brown's "Mini-Me," gave a controversial speech in Washington DC on Thursday. He was talking about forming "new alliances" to fight global poverty. He expressed his preference of a "rules-based international system" and of multilateralism over unilateralism. This was interpreted as "coded criticism" of the Bush administration.
Meanwhile, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung predicts that French President Nicolas Sarkozy will fill the "vacuum" that Blair left in Washington.
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