“Unfortunately, today we only have confrontation,” Guterres said Saturday in the AP interview. Guterres said the world’s two major economic powers should be cooperating on climate and negotiating more robustly on trade and technology given their persisting political fissures about human rights, economics, online security and sovereignty in the South China Sea.Īlso Read: How Beijing’s New Maritime Rules in the South China Sea Will Affect India and Others A convening blemished by COVID-19, climate concerns and contentiousness across the planet. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to the Associated Press this weekend, ahead of this week’s annual United Nations gathering of world leaders.
United Nations: Warning of a potential new Cold War, the head of the United Nations (UN) implored China and the United States of America to repair their “completely dysfunctional” relationship before problems between the two large and deeply influential countries spill over further onto the rest of the planet.
