US President Joe Biden and British PM Boris Johnson have updated their world war II-era ‘Atlantic Charter’. It’s beginning their joint vision for the world’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis and future prosperity.

The original charter was hammered out by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 and acted as a guiding blueprint for all times after World War II. The agreement promises a return to the full-throttle liberalism that the Trump administration interrupted.

On Thursday, Biden and Johnson met in St. Ives, Cornwall in a bilateral sit-down before the G7 summit kicks off on Friday. Though that they had tons of things to disagree on the impact of Brexit on the delicate peace in Northern Ireland for instance, appeared to emerge from their meeting the simplest of friends.

Johnson described handling Joe Biden as ‘a breath of fresh air,’ praising the Democrat’s desire to bring back classic Western-led globalism, after Donald Trump’s transactional ‘America First policy.

Positioning the United Kingdom and the US atop a globalized world, the Atlantic Charter endured throughout the conflict and beyond. The US, and to a lesser extent the united kingdom, served because the world’s policeman and globalization eroded national borders, allowing capital and labor to maneuver freely.

The two nations have once more committed to improving security, boosting trade, and defending democracy.

But the utilization of the phrase ‘Atlantic Charter’ has raised eyebrows among some historians who said the new agreement will ‘pale by comparison to the first and its ‘likely to stay a mere historical footnote’.