Growing US-China rivalry seen fueling UN paralysis amid virus crisis

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UNITED NATIONS: For nearly a decade, the UN Security Council has been frequently paralysed by Russia's obstinacy over the Syrian crisis. Today, however, it is the US-China rivalry that has infected a growing array of issues, according to officials and diplomats.

As recently as 2017, an understanding between Washington and Beijing allowed the United Nations on three occasions -- involving separate sets of economic sanctions -- to project international unity in the face of the North Korean nuclear threat.

Both UN officials and diplomats say the US-Chinese conflict seems to be spreading, leaving them increasingly pessimistic. "The tensions between the US and China are really problematic" for the world body, meaning the Security Council is"not able to move forward on a range of things," the official added."There is a huge fracture in the global multilateral architecture right now. And it's very serious," said Olof Skoog, the European Union ambassador to the UN.

 

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