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The US and British withdrawal has set off panic, but the truth is they were exacerbating the problem they were trying to solveFriends keep asking me to sign petitions urging President Biden to change his mind about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. …
Read MoreCybersecurity comes down to which side has access to more information about the other and can utilize it bestThis week, shares in China’s giant ride-hailing app Didi crashed by more than 20%. A few days before, Didi had raised $4.4bn in a massive IPO i…
Read MoreMilitants capture Islam Qala on border with Iran amid sweeping offensive launched as US withdrawsThe Taliban have claimed to be in control of 85% of Afghanistan, including a key border crossing with Iran, following a sweeping offensive launched as US t…
Read MoreBiden speaks on US troop withdrawal after 20 years at warPresident to receive update on military withdrawal process‘Radicalized’ anti-abortion movement posed increased threat 1.01am BST That’s all from me today. Here’s a rundown of the day’s biggest st…
Read MoreFierce fighting reported in western city of Qala-i-Naw, with militants seizing police HQ and spy officesThe Taliban launched an assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the first since the US military began its final drawdown of tro…
Read MoreMilitary officials say troops turned off power and slipped away without notifying new commanderUS forces plunged their main operating base in Afghanistan into darkness and abandoned it to looters, when they slipped away in the middle of the night after…
Read MoreAnalysis: Washington did not learn the lessons of Vietnam and more death and suffering are inevitableThe US war in Afghanistan was not supposed to be another Vietnam. “I don’t do quagmires,” said Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the original US invas…
Read MoreCitizens react to spiralling violence with militants seizing at least 50 of county’s nearly 400 districts since MayHaji Ghoulam Farouq Siawshani watched the Taliban rampage across northern Afghanistan this month, weighing up the threat from militants o…
Read More• Biden: those who helped US ‘are not going to be left behind’• Operation expected to include up to 50,000 peopleJoe Biden has vowed that Afghans who helped the US military “are not going to be left behind” as his administration stepped up planning to …
Read MoreKim Yo-jong’s intervention appears to have thwarted any prospects for early resumption of negotiationsKim Jong-un’s influential sister appears to have dismissed hopes for a breakthrough on nuclear talks with the US, warning Washington that it faced “di…
Read MoreLongest-serving envoy Cui Tiankai says relations between the countries ‘at a crossroads’ China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, has announced he will leave Washington after eight years, saying US-China relations are at a “crossroads” as the US reca…
Read MoreThe US donation has more than doubled Taiwan’s available vaccine stocks as it battles a rise in coronavirus infectionsSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reacted with an outpouring of thanks to the United States for shipping 2.5m Covid-19 vaccin…
Read MoreDictator tells ruling Workers’ party of the need to get ready for ‘fast-changing’ security situationNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country needs to prepare for “both dialogue and confrontation” with the United States under Joe Biden, stat…
Read MoreMany are beginning to fear the world may soon be caught in the crossfire between Beijing and WashingtonIn July 1971, US national security adviser Henry Kissinger embarked on a secret mission to China, then America’s sworn enemy. This 48-hour ice-breaki…
Read MoreOffer a welcome boost for Taiwan, which says China has interfered with its attempts to secure vaccines internationallySee all our coronavirus coverageThe United States will donate 750,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan as part of the country’s plan t…
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