Key takeaways
- Shared interests remain, but they are narrower and more specific than in the past.
- Information-sharing and border security are the clearest areas of overlap.
- Public disagreements should not be allowed to crowd out working-level cooperation.
Counterterrorism remains one of the few areas where both governments can point to concrete shared interests. This brief maps where those interests overlap today and where they pull apart.
We focus on practical channels: intelligence and information-sharing, border and aviation security, and countering the financing of violent groups. In each, we outline what cooperation looks like in practice and what tends to disrupt it.