After withdrawing twice, the United States seeks to return to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The withdrawal addiction is actually an "American exception" agreement | UNESCO | United States
On the 12th, UNESCO stated that the United States is seeking to return to the organization in July of this year.
Currently, the United States still owes $619 million in membership fees to UNESCO. It is reported that the US Congress has previously passed a bill agreeing to allocate over $500 million to repay membership fees in an effort to return to the organization.
Withdrawal from group addiction is actually a priority for the United States and an exception for the United States
The United States, which withdrew from UNESCO twice, has had a negative impact on the work of UNESCO. In fact, not only UNESCO, but also the United States has been adhering to the hegemonic behavior of "America first" and "America exception" in recent years. Breaking treaties and withdrawing from groups has become a common practice in the United States, and the "international rules" referred to by the United States are just synonymous with "use if applicable" and "discard if not applicable".
In the past few years, the United States has successively withdrawn from the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, ceased the implementation of the Paris Agreement, withdrew from UNESCO, withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council, withdrew from the China Missile Treaty, withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty, and has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.
However, international institutions are platforms for international cooperation, not battlefields for promoting geopolitical games. The so-called "rule-based international order" in the mouth of the United States is simply an international order that is based on rules established by the United States and other countries can only comply with its rules. The United States has not reflected on its erroneous behavior of breaking the treaty, withdrawing from the group, and advocating for prioritizing the United States, let alone demonstrating goodwill and sincerity in complying with international rules and respecting the international rule of law; The United States is constantly promoting a return to multilateralism, which essentially involves creating small circles to divide the world, maintaining monopolies and hegemony, and upholding the "pseudo multilateralism" of "America first" and "America exception".
Analysis suggests that the United States has repeatedly said and done one thing at a time, with the maintenance of hegemony as the underlying logic, deviating from the basic norms of international relations, which will only accelerate the overdraft of its international credibility and further collapse its international image. American scholar Jeffrey Sachs pointed out in his book "New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism" that "American exceptionalism" holds that the United States is unique and has inherent power to set and break international game rules. However, this is a "dangerous illusion" that turns the United States into a rogue country, which will bring danger to the United States itself and the world.
