The U.S. suffered its worst defeat ever at the UN Security Council—and it comes as no surprise.
has roused Beijing’s ire by touting Tibetan independence and scheduling an official visit, with a large delegation, to Taiwan—a move that compelled Beijing to cancel a Chinese tour of the Czech Philharmonic.
Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said in an email that many Czechs see China’s domination of Tibet and Taiwan “from their own national experience, and Pompeo was playing to that.” However, Daalder went on, his speech came during “the very week when Belarus exploded and when Turkey and Greece
come to blows”—yet he spent none of his time “dealing with the crises on Europe’s doorsteps. Remarkable!”at the Richard Nixon Library, essentially calling for regime change in China, even suggesting that Russia—which he didn’t criticize in the slightest—might be a worthy ally in this crusade, a notion that Russian specialists on Moscow-Beijing relations dismiss asPompeo’s obsession with China might even be deemed single-minded, except that he does harbor another obsession—.
The humbling came when the U.S., at Pompeo’s initiative, put forth a resolution to extend an embargo on buying and selling conventional weapons to and from Iran. Of the 15 members on the Security Council, just two voted in favor of the motion—the United States and the Dominican Republic. Two others—Russia and China—opposed. The other 11, most of them longtime U.S. allies, abstained.
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