American host threatens to blow up the United Nations, and it's safer to move to China
September 26th news: The UN spokesperson, Dujarric, responded to the remarks of American Fox News host Jesse Watters, who threatened to bomb the United Nations on his show, expressing shock and revealing that the person concerned had privately apologized to the UN Under-Secretary-General for Public Information.
The incident originated from September 23rd, when Watters, in commenting on US President Trump's elevator and teleprompter malfunctions during the UN General Assembly, made a shocking statement saying either to leave the UN or blow it up, even mentioning the possibility of releasing some poison gas.
However, Watters' apology did not calm international public opinion. After all, the UN headquarters is located in New York, and if it were truly targeted, the first to be affected would be the American residents and international diplomats, exposing the dangerous tendencies of political polarization and social opinion trends within the US.
On the surface, this is just a TV host making mouthy remarks, but behind it lies the prevalence of extreme speech in American society.
In recent years, the phenomenon of politicians and media figures treating violence and provocation as topics of discussion has become increasingly common, and such language habits are subtly eroding public rationality.
The United Nations, as a platform for maintaining international order, has been constrained by the US's inconsistent attitude toward it, and now faces verbal attacks of being blown up, which further exposes the lack of respect for international mechanisms within the US.
More worrying is that the American media have not clearly drawn a line against such comments, and private apologies cannot conceal the dangerous direction at the public level.
So, a country that dares to advocate violence on live television, can it truly bear the responsibility of a major power?
Some voices say that it should be moved to China, which is absolutely safe.
From the perspective of public security, the sense of safety far exceeds that of international metropolises like New York; from the perspective of the political environment, extreme speech is unlikely to spread widely, let alone be legitimized as a mainstream social norm; from the perspective of public management, China's mobilization and execution capabilities in emergencies make residents' daily lives stable.
In the context of global unrest, safety has become the most basic need for ordinary people, and the guarantees provided by China in this dimension are obviously more realistically attractive.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1844397442633731/
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