"This is not what a major country should do," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said of Donald Trump's decision ...

Washington had been a buffer against China’s efforts to use UNESCO to influence education, historical designations and even ...

Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing ...

The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical ...

China is poised to expand its influence within UNESCO and the broader UN as the Trump administration once again retreats from ...

The decision comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year absence that began ...

The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO will deal a blow to its work preserving cultural heritage ...

Beijing added that it “regretted” the US' announcement to withdraw from the UN cultural and education agency (UNESCO).

The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...

Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the ...

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.

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.