When Theresa meets Donald: A geopolitical odd couple with big implications for the West

The Washington Post:  LONDON — When British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday becomes the first world leader to meet with President Trump in the Oval Office, the two will have much in common to discuss.

Both were catapulted to power on the back of populist shocks in 2016. Both have promised to deliver radical change to their countries. And both now lead nations at the heart of a Western alliance facing its most serious identity crisis in decades.

Yet beneath the similarities lie profound differences in style and substance that make the two leaders less the second coming of the Thatcher-Reagan transatlantic lovefest and more a geopolitical odd couple.

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