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Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower?

Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…

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Is China stepping up its ambition to supplant US as top superpower?

Analysis: Joe Biden has cleared the decks to focus on China. But how imminent is the danger?It may have been an inelegantly, even ineptly, executed pivot, gratuitously alienating key allies, but by leaving Afghanistan and forming the Australian, US and…

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The Afghanistan Papers review: superb exposé of a war built on lies

Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the warIn the summer of 2009, the latest in a long line of US military commanders in Afghanistan commissioned the latest in a long line of strateg…

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Britain must rediscover the will to lead on global issues | Tobias Ellwood

The withdrawal from Afghanistan is folly and has highlighted glaring faults in Whitehall“The war in Afghanistan is over,” proclaimed Joe Biden. How wrong he will be proved to be.This was never a baseball game that simply folds when we all walk away, ye…

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Yesterday’s war: why Raab did not foresee Afghanistan catastrophe

Analysis: minister’s call log shows he had little interest in Afghanistan, prioritising India and south-east AsiaDominic Raab has been reluctant to criticise Joe Biden, who has faced an unprecedented wave of criticism over the US exit from Afghanistan,…

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Biden meets remains of 13 troops killed in Kabul as US promises more strikes

Secretary of state to bereaved father: ‘I’m deeply sorry’Adviser: US will help people leave after deadlineAfghanistan – live coverageThe White House on Sunday reasserted its promise to capture or kill the perpetrators of the deadly attacks on Kabul air…

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‘Biden’s worst nightmare’: how Afghanistan shook a president

A rapid Taliban takeover, a chaotic evacuation and a deadly terror attack have shaken confidence in the commander-in-chief and US leadershipJoe Biden bowed his head at the lectern, as if the weight of the world were on his shoulders. In his breast pock…

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Biden doesn’t want Kabul attackers ‘to live on planet Earth any more’, says Psaki – video

The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, underlined Joe Biden’s comments on Thursday’s attack on Kabul airport, saying: ‘I think he made it clear he doesn’t want them to live on planet Earth any more.’Biden’s national security team has warned him th…

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Biden: Afghanistan evacuations would always have been ‘hard and painful’

President defends US exit but makes changes to airlift effort at Kabul airport after criticism over deaths and chaotic scenes Civil war ‘unavoidable’ if Taliban won’t talk – opposition leaderThe evacuation of thousands of Americans and their Afghan all…

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Pentagon orders commercial airlines to help in Afghanistan evacuations

Defense secretary: ‘We’re gonna try our very best to get everybody, every American citizen who wants to get out, out’Ex-Afghan ambassador warns of women’s fate under TalibanActivating a plan used only twice before, the Biden administration on Sunday or…

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