{"id":3553,"date":"2020-10-03T18:51:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T18:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2020-10-03T18:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T18:51:56","slug":"at-the-un-chinas-xi-showed-he-understands-the-system-better-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"At the UN, China\u2019s Xi showed he understands the system better than Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;when the United States walks away from cooperative bodies \u2014 from the Paris climate accord to the WHO \u2014 it leaves behind a vacuum. China has hastened to fill it, and that, more than anything, is bolstering Beijing\u2019s rise and influence. It gives China a chance to be a good guy \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/china-pledges-additional-30-million-funding-for-world-health-organization\/2020\/04\/23\/24f9b680-8539-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">say, pledging $30 million to the WHO<\/a>&nbsp;when the US threatened to withdraw, a fraction of the money the US provides annually. The Trump administration, in abandoning institutions for being too China-centric, is allowing them to become just that. It\u2019s a self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, this is not to say the US doesn\u2019t have legitimate criticisms of the WHO, or China. But by refusing to work within the system, it is actively ceding leverage and losing credibility. Last week, in a discussion with reporters about the implications of the US leaving the WHO, Elizabeth Cousens, the president and CEO of the UN Foundation, said that even as the US is trying to push the WHO to reform, it\u2019s \u201closing influence in that conversation because they\u2019ve stepped off the field.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/9\/22\/21450706\/united-nations-general-assembly-trump-xi\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/9\/22\/21450706\/united-nations-general-assembly-trump-xi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;when the United States walks away from cooperative bodies \u2014 from the Paris climate accord to the WHO \u2014 it leaves behind a vacuum. China has hastened to fill it, and that, more than anything, is bolstering Beijing\u2019s rise and influence. It gives China a chance to be a good guy \u2014 say, pledging $30 million to the WHO when the US threatened to withdraw, a fraction of the money the US provides annually. The Trump administration, in abandoning institutions for being too China-centric, is allowing them to become just that. It\u2019s a self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is not to say the US doesn\u2019t have legitimate criticisms of the WHO, or China. But by refusing to work within the system, it is actively ceding leverage and losing credibility. Last week, in a discussion with reporters about the implications of the US leaving the WHO, Elizabeth Cousens, the president and CEO of the UN Foundation, said that even as the US is trying to push the WHO to reform, it\u2019s \u201closing influence in that conversation because they\u2019ve stepped off the field.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,355,314],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}