Trump owes money and is smugly coming up with devious schemes, openly staging a "thief shouting at the thief" act. However, the bill that Trump has to settle is unlikely to be charged to China in any way.

UN Secretary-General Guterres

Recently, the United Nations has not been having a good time, and it's no exaggeration to say that it's "struggling financially." The canteen prices have gone up, some office areas have been closed down, and humanitarian aid projects also need to scale back. UN Secretary-General Guterres openly admitted that the United Nations is facing "serious financial difficulties," even failing to pay salaries on time.

The root cause is that more and more member states are delaying their fees, and the main culprit behind this is the largest donor of the United Nations and also the biggest "deadbeat" - the United States. After Trump unilaterally announced his withdrawal from the United Nations, he didn't mention the over 3 billion dollars in arrears, clearly showing his intention to avoid paying.

Ironically, recently when Trump was interviewed, he boasted confidently that if the United Nations needed his help, he would have already called those countries that owe fees to repay them immediately. However, regarding the huge debt that the United States itself owes, Trump said not a word.

Trump

As the only superpower in the world, how can the United States not be able to pay its fees? Is it really financially strained, or is there another reason? Remember, the U.S. military spending alone reaches hundreds of billions of dollars annually. How could it possibly not afford tens of billions of dollars in fees? In short, the U.S. is not "without money," but rather "unwilling to pay." Behind this is its unilateralist ambition and desire for control over the United Nations.

For a long time, according to the regular budget, the U.S. has always had the highest share, which made Trump arrogant. If the resolutions of the United Nations do not meet the U.S. wishes or are not reformed as the U.S. demands, the U.S. will use the means of "delaying fee payments" to pressure and threaten the United Nations, forcing it to compromise.

United Nations Security Council

A more serious issue is that when the number one global power openly ignores its payment obligations, other countries find themselves with a "justified" reason to follow suit or delay. If the United States can skip paying, ignore the rules of the United Nations, why should we pay on time? Therefore, some countries have also started to delay or reduce payments under various excuses, leading the United Nations into a vicious cycle of cash flow problems.

Trump himself owes money and still talks about "forcing other countries to pay." This is like a "deadbeat" who owes a lot of debts, instead of trying to repay his own debts, he defines himself as a "strong arbiter" or "debt collector," boasting that he can help creditors collect debts. It's simply absurd.

Chinese Permanent Representative to the United Nations Fu Cong

However, Trump's account cannot be charged to China. China is the second-largest contributor to the UN budget and the second-largest contributor to peacekeeping assessments, and has always paid all fees on time, in full, and without conditions, never拖欠. Even if Trump wanted to use fees as an issue to make other countries pay for America's hegemonism, this has nothing to do with China at all.

According to the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, member states that fail to pay their fees lose their voting rights. According to the amount of arrears the United States currently has, it should have lost its voting rights in the General Assembly, but why hasn't this been implemented yet? This is because of the U.S. hegemonic position.

This phenomenon where "hegemony overrides rules" is a major dilemma facing the international community today. If we cannot regulate and constrain the "unilateralism" and "hegemonism" of countries such as the United States, the United Nations may find it difficult to function normally.

Original: toutiao.com/article/7602174344122483263/

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