UN Watch govt director Hillel Neuer discusses China accusing the U.S. of bullying, mediators providing a brand new peace plan for Israel and Hamas and the Trump administration contemplating chopping funding for the United Nations in addition to NATO.
UNITED NATIONS — China accused the U.S. of utilizing tariffs to bully different nations because it led a United Nations Safety Council Arria-formula assembly on “The Impact of Unilateralism and Bullying Practices on International Relations.”
“Under the guise of reciprocity and fairness, the U.S. is playing a zero-sum game, which is essentially about subverting the existing international economic and trade order by means of tariffs, putting U.S. interests above the common good of the international community and advancing hegemonic ambitions of the U.S. at the cost of the legitimate interest of all countries,” Chinese language U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong mentioned in his opening remarks.
Fu additionally praised China for its “decisive countermeasures” after dealing with what he described as “U.S. abuse of tariffs.”
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Fu Cong, China’s Everlasting Consultant to the U.N., speaks because the United Nations Safety Council meets publicly to debate the Israel-Hamas battle in Gaza on the U.N. headquarters in New York Metropolis on Aug.13, 2024. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz / Reuters)
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“China continues to contradict itself; while claiming to support open markets, it dumps artificially low-priced goods into the global economy with exports, steals intellectual property, and implements unfair trade practices,” the spokesperson mentioned. “China claims to be a developing country, while it simultaneously weaponizes its donor status and development projects to bully developing Member States.”
The spokesperson added that the U.S. would proceed to safeguard its pursuits and fight China’s efforts.
American lawmakers, together with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., have rejected China’s claims that the U.S. is participating in international bullying.
Scott mentioned China’s assertion was “absurd” and referred to as for the defunding of “the anti-American U.N. IMMEDIATELY” in a submit on X.
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“As of today, all countries targeted by the U.S. for trade fairness recalibration have dealt or are dealing quickly and constructively with D.C. — except Canada and China,” Hugh Dugan, a former Senior Director within the NSC within the first Trump Administration, advised FOX Enterprise. “Meanwhile the Communist Party of China continues to bully and [use] its own people to subsidize output by substandard wages.”
Dugan additionally dismissed the concept China might “survive in a global economy without exploiting its workers’ human rights through slave wages and without stealing intellectual property from abroad.”
President Donald Trump, left, attends a bilateral assembly with China’s President Xi Jinping through the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 29, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/File Photograph / Reuters)
A visitor speaker invited by the Chinese language to handle the council assembly, Wang Huiyao, founder and president of the Heart for China and Globalization (CCG), claimed that the U.S. had launched a commerce struggle “against the entire world” with President Donald Trump’s tariff insurance policies.
In response to the watchdog group U.N. Watch, CCG has “close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
“It’s Orwellian to watch China, one of the world’s leading abusers of economic coercion and human rights, convene a U.N. meeting to accuse others of bullying,” U.N. Watch Government Director Hillel Neuer advised FOX Enterprise in an announcement.
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“This is the same regime that threatens sanctions on democracies recognizing Taiwan, punishes countries for standing with Uyghurs, and bullies its neighbors in the South China Sea. Beijing’s attempt to hijack the U.N. to attack the United States is not about peace or development — it’s about shielding authoritarian power from accountability.”
Whereas the Trump administration imposed tariffs on a bunch of countries, it took the hardest strategy to China and carried out a 145% tariff on Chinese language items. Nevertheless, The Wall Road Journal reported {that a} senior White Home official advised the outlet that tariffs on China may very well be lower to 50%-65%.
