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September 23, 2020

U.N. Secretary-General Warns of New Cold War as Trump Attacks China over Coronavirus
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Here in New York, the United Nations General Assembly got underway
Tuesday with world leaders and most U.N. ambassadors participating
remotely due to the pandemic. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres
warned against a "new cold war" between the U.S. and China.

Secretary-General António Guterres: "Our world cannot afford a future
where the two largest economies split the globe in a great fracture,
each with its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial
intelligence capacities. A technological and economic divide risks
inevitably turning into a geostrategic and military divide, and we must
avoid these at all costs."

President Trump also addressed the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday,
criticizing China during a pretaped seven-minute address - the shortest
ever given by a U.S. president.

President Donald Trump: "We must hold accountable the nation which
unleashed this plague onto the world: China."

Chinese President Xi Jinping also spoke and vowed to make China carbon
neutral by 2060 with carbon emissions peaking within 10 years. Xi called
on nations to "achieve a green recovery of the world economy in the
post-COVID era."


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