US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence

PARIS (AP) — UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member.

U.S. officials say the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by the U.S. in UNESCO policymaking, notably in setting standards for artificial intelligence and technology education around the world.

The move will face a vote by UNESCO’s member states in the coming weeks. But approval seems a formality after the resounding applause that greeted the announcement in UNESCO’s Paris headquarters Monday. Not a single country raised an objection to the return of a country that was once the agency’s single biggest funder.

The U.S. and Israel stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011. The Trump administration decided in 2017 to withdraw from the agency altogether the following year, citing long-running anti-Israel bias and management problems.

UNESCO’s director general, Audrey Azoulay, has worked to address those concerns since her election in 2017, and that appears to have paid off.

“It’s a historic moment for UNESCO,” she said Monday. “It’s also an important day for multilateralism.″

No, the Biden regime decided to hand UNESCO $600 million of our money to a America-hating, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, Islamofascist organization, precisely because it is those four things.

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People who pushed moving our trade to China had no grasp of
how insidious it would turn out to be.

China now has to be dealt with on many issues it never would
have been if we left it as a decades behind industrial
culture.

Of course some folks knew, and wanted to damage the U. S.

Many folks thought they knew global dynamics better than the
folks who urged caution.

Now, thirty years later we’ve been proven right, but too
late. And that’s just as we predicted too.

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