The Perils of China’s Rising UN Spending

China is expected to cover over 20 percent of the United Nations’ 2025 spending plan, an 8 percent increase from 2021, reported Nikkei Asia on Wednesday.

• This shrinks the gap between China’s contribution and the 22 percent covered by the United States.
• China became the UN’s second-largest contributor in 2019.
• If current trajectories persist, China will soon be the UN’s main funder.
• Chinese nationals are assuming leading roles in UN agencies, such as chief of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

America first: President Trump and his administration have made clear that they want to prioritize the interests of the American people and are, therefore, withdrawing from some UN programs.

• Just after his inauguration, Trump signed an executive order to exit the Paris Agreement, which is part of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• He withdrew from the UN’s World Health Organization on the same day.
• On February 4, President Trump signed an order withdrawing America from the UN Human Rights Council and ending U.S. participation in the UN Relief and Works Agency, a corrupt organization for Palestinians.
• He has also ordered a review of America’s participation in the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Weaponized: Cutting out this wasteful spending will enable the U.S. to improve its economy and better protect its interests. However, allowing China to control more of the UN will also increase China’s global power and help it weaponize the UN against global peace.

At the UN’s inaugural session in 1945, the late educator Herbert W. Armstrong said: “Already I see the clouds of World War iii gathering at this conference. I do not see peace being germinated here, but the seeds of the next war!”

We have 80 years of UN failures to show Mr. Armstrong was right. As China grows more dominant within the organization, the UN will likely continue furthering China’s belligerent global ambitions.

Learn more: Read “Peacekeeping UNdone.”