{"id":35315,"date":"2021-08-16T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-western-leaders-react-to-taliban-take-over-of-kabul-video"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T03:21:51","slug":"afghanistan-western-leaders-react-to-taliban-takeover-of-kabul-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35315","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: western leaders react to Taliban takeover of Kabul \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have reacted to the news that the Taliban has begun taking control of Kabul after a 20-year mission to Afghanistan led by western countries. UK prime minister Boris Johnsons said, \u2018we don&#8217;t want anybody bilaterally recognising the Taliban\u2019, while New Zealand\u2019s prime minister Jacinda Ardern said conversations over how the new regime is treated will be for some time in the future. US secretary of state Antony Blinken blamed \u2018the inability of Afghan security forces to defend their country\u2019 for the quick takeover while Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said he was \u2018heartbroken\u2019 at the news. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said that fighting for freedom is \u2018always worth it whatever the outcome.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\">The fall of Kabul: a 20-year mission collapses in a single day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-live-news-updates\">Afghanistan live news: Taliban declare \u2018war is over\u2019 as they take control of Kabul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/15\/antony-blinken-us-mission-afghanistan-saigon\">\u2018This is manifestly not Saigon\u2019: Blinken defends US mission in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-western-leaders-react-to-taliban-take-over-of-kabul-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have reacted to the news that the Taliban has begun taking control of Kabul after a 20-year mission to Afghanistan led by western countries. UK prime minister Boris Johnsons said, \u2018we don&#8217;t wan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[46,2003,43,531,533,386,61,44,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-antony-blinken","category-australia-news","category-boris-johnson","category-germany","category-scott-morrison","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/35315","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35316,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions\/35316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}