United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres' speech to the 74th annual High-Level General Assembly meeting on September 24th was full of generalities about world problems the UN is purporting to deal with, in contrast to President Trump's honest discussion of hard truths.
President Trump sought to remind the world leaders he addressed in his own General Assembly speech of the UN founders' original understanding of the relationship between the world organization and its sovereign member states.
"Not only has China declined to adopt promised reforms," President Trump said, "It has embraced an economic model, dependent on massive market barriers, heavy state subsidies, currency manipulation, product dumping, forced technology transfers and the theft of intellectual property and also trade secrets on a grand scale." The U.S. has led the way in trying to uphold the rule of law in multilateral trade, but President Trump made it clear that the United States would no longer be suckered by China's disregard for the rule of law.
President Trump also brought up Hong Kong, declaring that the U.S. would be "Carefully monitoring the situation." He added, "The world fully expects that the Chinese government will honor its binding treaty made with the British and registered with the United Nations in which China commits to protect Hong Kong's freedom, legal system and democratic ways of life." These are the kinds of hard truths that the world leaders who assembled at the UN's annual talk fest needed to hear, especially China.
Iran provided another opportunity for President Trump to lay down some hard truths.
President Trump made no mention of climate change in his speech, which was the theme of the UN Climate Action Summit held with much ballyhoo on September 23rd. However, the president did have much to say about illegal immigration and the need for sovereign nations to be able to protect their own borders.
This may be the hardest truth of all that President Trump delivered to his largely unreceptive audience at the General Assembly.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/09/president-trump-delivers-hard-truths-un-general-joseph-klein/
President Trump sought to remind the world leaders he addressed in his own General Assembly speech of the UN founders' original understanding of the relationship between the world organization and its sovereign member states.
"Not only has China declined to adopt promised reforms," President Trump said, "It has embraced an economic model, dependent on massive market barriers, heavy state subsidies, currency manipulation, product dumping, forced technology transfers and the theft of intellectual property and also trade secrets on a grand scale." The U.S. has led the way in trying to uphold the rule of law in multilateral trade, but President Trump made it clear that the United States would no longer be suckered by China's disregard for the rule of law.
President Trump also brought up Hong Kong, declaring that the U.S. would be "Carefully monitoring the situation." He added, "The world fully expects that the Chinese government will honor its binding treaty made with the British and registered with the United Nations in which China commits to protect Hong Kong's freedom, legal system and democratic ways of life." These are the kinds of hard truths that the world leaders who assembled at the UN's annual talk fest needed to hear, especially China.
Iran provided another opportunity for President Trump to lay down some hard truths.
President Trump made no mention of climate change in his speech, which was the theme of the UN Climate Action Summit held with much ballyhoo on September 23rd. However, the president did have much to say about illegal immigration and the need for sovereign nations to be able to protect their own borders.
This may be the hardest truth of all that President Trump delivered to his largely unreceptive audience at the General Assembly.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/09/president-trump-delivers-hard-truths-un-general-joseph-klein/
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