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The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO will deal a blow to its work preserving cultural heritage ...
Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing ...
China is poised to expand its influence within UNESCO and the broader UN as the Trump administration once again retreats from ...
Washington had been a buffer against China’s efforts to use UNESCO to influence education, historical designations and even ...
Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the ...
The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical ...
"This is not what a major country should do," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said of Donald Trump's decision ...
Beijing added that it “regretted” the US' announcement to withdraw from the UN cultural and education agency (UNESCO).
The Palestinian ambassador to UNESCO didn’t comment on the U.S. decision. The only envoy who wasn’t gushing with praise was China’s ambassador, Jin Yang.
In 2015, China nominated the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall’s collection of documents, along with several other archives about the massacre, to UNESCO’s MOW register.
China hosts other UNESCO Category 2 centers (independent partner organizations) — including five more in Beijing — that work in areas like theoretical physics, engineering, geochemistry and ...
On August 31, 2015, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova visited Shaanxi Province in China and conferred on it certification for the Silk Road to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.