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US decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by density971@lemmy.one to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] njm1314@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fantastic news. It was extremely shitty that the US pulled out in the first place over such a nonsensical reason. UNESCO is about world heritage and such should be above, extremely, petty politics.

[–] princessprity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything connected to Donald Trump is petty and shitty.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US left UNESCO in the nineteen eighties.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

From the article:

The U.S. and Israel stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011. The Trump administration decided in 2017 to withdraw from the agency altogether the following year, citing long-running anti-Israel bias and management problems.

So, shared between the Obama & Trump administration. Definitely not in the nineteen eighties.

[–] thirdorbital@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Completely agree, some things should be above politics. I mean, just look at the list: in America it's mostly our best national parks. In other places it's priceless cultural history. I don't keep a formal bucket list but the list of places I'd love to see and the list of places UNESCO helps preserve has a TON of overlap.