Category: United Nations

China and Russia Veto Un Resolution on Protecting Hormuz Shipping

China and Russia on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. resolution encouraging states to coordinate efforts to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the measure biased against Iran, while Washington's ambassador to the world body called on "responsible nations" to join the U.S. in securing the waterway.

China Blocks Force Clause in U.N. Hormuz Vote as Oil Crisis Deepens

The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to protect commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, but in a significantly watered-down form after veto-wielding China opposed authorizing force, diplomats said. Oil prices have ...

China, Russia Align on Iran War Ahead of Crucial UN Vote This Week

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke by phone on Sunday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to coordinate their positions on the ongoing Iran war ahead of a crucial vote at the UN on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz. ...

COP30 Marks China’s Growing Role in Scrambled Global Climate Landscape

Monday, 10 November, is the official start of the 30th UN Council of the Parties (COP) climate gathering. Taking place in Belém, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, the meeting is highly symbolic of how the global climate landscape has changed since COP1, and how much ...

Iran Recalls European Ambassadors After Failure of China-Led UN Vote

Iran recalled its ambassadors to the UK, Germany, and France, following the defeat of a China-led draft resolution in the UN Security Council to prevent the reimposition of sanctions against the country. China and Russia pushed the delay in the ...

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Three New Polls Show China is Edging Past the U.S. as the World’s Partner

Worry about the Trump administration’s decision-making is leading the public around the world to see China as an increasingly attractive counter-option. This is the main takeaway from three large public opinion polls released recently.
The annual Gallup poll of 130 countries is the largest of the three. They also include new Arab Barometer polling of countries in the Middle East, and an annual ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute poll of Southeast Asia.

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China at UN Warns of Return to ‘Cold War Mentality’

Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned Friday against a return to a "Cold War mentality" and defended multilateralism and free trade, in a veiled criticism of the United States from the United Nations. The Chinese premier made no explicit reference to U.S. ...

Trump’s Attack on Multilateralism Leaves Xi Poised to Fill the Void

By Lukas Fiala U.S. President Donald Trump’s page turner of a speech at the UN General Assembly this week was many things, but certainly no homage to the United Nations. Exhibiting the president’s well-known skepticism of multilateralism and rejection of globalism, ...

China Announces New Climate Goals

China’s President Xi Jinping announced a new set of climate goals at Wednesday’s UN General Assembly meeting. The announcement comes a day after his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, dismissed climate change, calling it the "greatest con job ever perpetrated on ...

Zelensky Says China Could Force Russia to Stop Ukraine War

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council Tuesday that China could pressure Russia to end the war in his country, following a U.S. call for Beijing to stop buying Moscow's oil. China is not a party to the conflict, ...

China May Strengthen Climate Role Amid U.S. Fossil Fuel Push

By Issam Ahmed and Ivan Couronne All eyes are on China this week, as the world's biggest polluter readies a new emissions-cutting plan -- reinforcing its role as a steadfast defender of global climate diplomacy while Europe stalls and the United ...

Future-Gazing China’s Global Governance Initiative

By Lukas Fiala At China’s SCO summit earlier this month, Xi launched yet another one of his signature foreign policy-oriented projects: the Global Governance Initiative (GGI). Adding an umbrella framing to the existing alphabet soup of GSI, GDI, GCI and ...

China Outraged Over U.S. Veto of Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council

By Gregory Walton UN Security Council members criticized the United States Wednesday after it vetoed a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, which Washington said undermined ongoing diplomacy. It was ...
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