She was in bad shape since the election of Donald Trump. But the health crisis, amplifying the geopolitical trends at work in the world, poses a new danger to multilateral organizations and international agreements. The American administration had already withdrawn from the Paris agreement, from Unesco, from the Iranian nuclear agreement, from the INF treaty on intermediate-range nuclear weapons… In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, it has suspended funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), accused of being too favorable to Chinese interests.
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Donald Trump considers that his participation in the WHO costs him more than he brings back. “ The purpose of institutions is to stand the test of time. But the UN system is put under high tension by the American disengagement, the Chinese offensive and the European wait-and-see policy ”, writes Thomas Gomart, the director of the French Institute of international relations (Ifri), in an article for Politics
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