{"id":35171,"date":"2021-08-14T00:34:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/rift-with-us-grows-as-uk-minister-voices-fears-over-afghanistan-exit"},"modified":"2021-08-14T00:34:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:34:52","slug":"rift-with-us-grows-as-uk-minister-voices-fears-over-afghanistan-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35171","title":{"rendered":"Rift with US grows as UK minister voices fears over Afghanistan exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace says he is \u2018absolutely concerned\u2019 about terrorism threat, contradicting Biden analysis<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s decision to rapidly withdraw from Afghanistan is threatening to turn into one of the biggest Anglo-American foreign policy rifts in decades, with potentially dangerous political consequences if the UK government\u2019s warnings about a return of terrorism and mass movement of refugees to Europe eventually prove correct.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary, revealed in remarkably frank interviews on Friday that the UK was so aghast at the US decision to withdraw completely from Afghanistan next month that it had canvassed other Nato allies to see if there was support for a reconfigured alliance to continue the stabilisation force in Afghanistan without the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/13\/rift-with-us-grows-as-uk-minister-voices-fears-over-afghanistan-exit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace says he is \u2018absolutely concerned\u2019 about terrorism threat, contradicting Biden analysisJoe Biden\u2019s decision to rapidly withdraw from Afghanistan is threatening to turn into one of the biggest Anglo-American foreign policy rifts in decades, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1808,1854,319,4,61,52,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-biden-administration","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35171\/revisions\/35172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}