{"id":55928,"date":"2023-06-12T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/12\/china-concerns-prompt-us-move-to-rejoin-unesco"},"modified":"2023-06-12T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:08:20","slug":"china-concerns-prompt-us-move-to-rejoin-unesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55928","title":{"rendered":"China concerns prompt US move to rejoin Unesco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Return of US ends decade-long dispute sparked by agency\u2019s move to admit Palestine as a member<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s cultural and scientific agency, Unesco, has announced that the US plans to rejoin \u2013 and pay more than $600m (\u00a3477m) in back dues \u2013 after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organisation\u2019s move to include Palestine as a member.<\/p>\n<p>US officials say the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by Washington in Unesco policymaking, notably in setting standards for artificial intelligence and technology education around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/12\/china-concerns-prompt-us-move-to-rejoin-unesco\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return of US ends decade-long dispute sparked by agency\u2019s move to admit Palestine as a memberThe UN\u2019s cultural and scientific agency, Unesco, has announced that the US plans to rejoin \u2013 and pay more than $600m (\u00a3477m) in back dues \u2013 after a decade-long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3791,"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":[41,50,995,84,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-unesco","category-united-nations","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/55928","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\/3791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55928\/revisions\/55929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}