{"id":36314,"date":"2021-09-02T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/uk-defence-secretary-suggests-us-is-no-longer-superpower"},"modified":"2021-09-03T02:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:30:30","slug":"uk-defence-secretary-suggests-us-is-no-longer-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36314","title":{"rendered":"UK defence secretary suggests US is no longer a superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace also contrasts his department\u2019s handling of Afghanistan crisis with Foreign Office response<\/p>\n<p>Ben Wallace, Britain\u2019s defence secretary, suggested the US could no longer be considered a superpower in an interview where he also contrasted his department\u2019s handling of the Afghanistan crisis with that of the embattled Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.<\/p>\n<p>The pointed comments \u2013 coming at a time of heightened transatlantic and domestic tensions over the messy retreat \u2013 feature in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/britain-is-not-a-superpower-an-interview-with-ben-wallace\">in the Spectator magazine<\/a> given days after the final western forces evacuated from Kabul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/sep\/02\/uk-defence-secretary-suggests-us-is-no-longer-superpower\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace also contrasts his department\u2019s handling of Afghanistan crisis with Foreign Office responseBen Wallace, Britain\u2019s defence secretary, suggested the US could no longer be considered a superpower in an interview where he also contrasted his de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[46,1808,997,950,319,938,4,61,52,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-defence-policy","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-military","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\/36314","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36327,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36314\/revisions\/36327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}