{"id":36241,"date":"2021-09-01T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/true-colours-inside-the-3-september-guardian-weekly"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:00:25","slug":"true-colours-inside-the-3-september-guardian-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36241","title":{"rendered":"True colours: inside the 3 September Guardian Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How will the Taliban rule Afghanistan? plus Angela Merkel\u2019s political legacy. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/uk\/subscribe\/weekly?promoCode=WWM62X\">Get the magazine delivered to your home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the last remaining US troops left Kabul this week, focus turned to what form the Taliban government of Afghanistan will take. While the group has insisted it wants to engage with other nations and allow citizens more freedoms than in its previous incarnation, last week\u2019s deadly Islamic State suicide attack at Kabul airport highlighted some of the problems the insurgents-turned-incumbents face. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/emma-graham-harrison\">Emma Graham-Harrison<\/a> reports, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/jasonburke\">Jason Burke<\/a> considers the moral dilemma facing the west in choosing its Afghan friends and enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 16 years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/angela-merkel\">Angela Merkel<\/a> has led Europe\u2019s leading power through challenging and tumultuous times.<strong> <\/strong>As Germany\u2019s chancellor enters her final days in office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/philip-oltermann\">Philip Oltermann<\/a> reflects on the substantial legacy Merkel leaves in several diplomatic spheres, and how a scientific mind has guided her political principles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/true-colours-inside-the-3-september-guardian-weekly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How will the Taliban rule Afghanistan? plus Angela Merkel\u2019s political legacy. Get the magazine delivered to your homeAs the last remaining US troops left Kabul this week, focus turned to what form the Taliban government of Afghanistan will take. While &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2226,"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":[46,471,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36241","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\/2226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36242,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36241\/revisions\/36242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}