{"id":22997,"date":"2020-09-23T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/un-general-assembly-virtual-speeches-cold-war"},"modified":"2020-09-23T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:46:07","slug":"our-1945-moment-un-faces-fears-of-a-great-fracture-at-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22997","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our 1945 moment&#8217;: UN faces fears of a &#8216;great fracture&#8217; at general assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid prerecorded speeches, secretary-general issues warning over US-China rivalry at an unprecedented moment<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we face our own 1945 moment,\u201d the United Nations secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said as he opened the UN\u2019s 75th general assembly, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/un-75-general-assembly-worlds-worst-zoom-meeting\">a thinly<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/un-75-general-assembly-worlds-worst-zoom-meeting\"> populated chamber<\/a> of socially distanced diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres meant the historical reference as a call to action inspired by the generation who had survived the second world war and sought to build a new world. A similarly concerted effort, he said, would be needed to defeat Covid and the pandemics that may follow, and the climate emergency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/22\/un-general-assembly-virtual-speeches-cold-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid prerecorded speeches, secretary-general issues warning over US-China rivalry at an unprecedented moment\u201cToday, we face our own 1945 moment,\u201d the United Nations secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, said as he opened the UN\u2019s 75th general assembly, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,419,52,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-russia","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23000,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions\/23000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}