- ‘Completely dysfunctional’ relationship needs repair with the world struggling to tackle shared problems such as Covid-19 and climate, Guterres says
- A new cold war could be more dangerous and difficult to manage than the last, he says before UN’s annual gathering of world leaders
Warning of a potential new cold war, the head of the United Nations implored China and the United States to repair their “completely dysfunctional” relationship before problems between the two large and deeply influential countries spill over even further into the rest of the planet.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres made the comments before this week’s annual United Nations gathering of world leaders – a convening blemished by Covid-19, climate concerns and contentiousness across the planet.
Guterres said the world’s two major economic powers should be cooperating on climate and negotiating more robustly on trade and technology even given persisting political fissures about human rights, economics, online security and sovereignty in the South China Sea.
“Unfortunately, today we only have confrontation,” Guterres said on Saturday. “We need to re-establish a functional relationship between the two powers,” he said, calling that “essential to address the problems of vaccination, the problems of
climate change and many other global challenges that cannot be solved without constructive relations within the international community and mainly among the superpowers.”
Two years ago, Guterres warned global leaders of the risk of the world splitting in two, with the United States and China creating rival internets, currency, trade, financial rules “and their own zero-sum geopolitical and military strategies”.
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