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China does this across the whole UN. You can’t bring your high school club to visit without appeasing the censors, who will check that the school and its clubs
by fennecfoxen 5y ago
China does this across the whole UN. You can’t bring your high school club to visit without appeasing the censors, who will check that the school and its clubs have never blogged mentioning Taiwan as anything other than a “province of China.”
China is on the security council so this will never change. The UN will implode first.
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/china-makes-sure-everyone-writes-taiwans-name-just-soeven-a-colorado-high-school-11631304386 https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/china-makes-sure-everyone-w...
- int_19h 5y agoTo be fair, this is just one of the many examples of UNSC being broken by design. In a similar vein, US tends to use its veto indiscriminately to cover up for Israel, and Russia does the same for its client states and allies.
- ethbr0 5y agoThat's the entire point of the Security Council -- to allow states with the most powerful militaries and nuclear weapons to exert greater influence. To create another system would be to risk irrelevance due to the mismatch between actual military power and UN power. It sucks when it leads to states using that power, but the alternative is more wars and potentially nuclear weapons use.
- int_19h 5y agoThat's the entire point of the Security Council veto. Note that there are other, rotating members on it, which do not have the veto power. In principle, all members could be like that. I understand that UNSC is the way it is because that's the only way to actually get the power players to participate. That doesn't make it any less broken.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoEverything is broken because there's no perfection?
- fennecfoxy 5y agoHey we have the same uname almost uwu