{"id":74440,"date":"2025-09-24T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/24\/trump-un-general-assembly-speech-analysis"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:30:12","slug":"trumps-un-speech-makes-it-clear-the-world-can-no-longer-look-to-the-us-for-strong-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74440","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s UN speech makes it clear: the world can no longer look to the US for strong leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliances<\/p>\n<p>Such is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nations are rapidly being reduced to one long discussion about how to relate to and challenge this ever darker and weirder presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Before Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/23\/trump-un-general-assembly-speech\">extraordinary 58-minute speech on the supposed threats posed by open borders, sharia law, the UN\u2019s failings and the \u201cclimate hoax\u201d<\/a>, the supporters of the UN\u2019s values already knew they faced a challenge. Now they realise the degree to which the world\u2019s superpower seems bent on the destruction of everything they believe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/24\/trump-un-general-assembly-speech-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s speech made a mockery of UN values and highlights the need for strong anti-Trumpian alliancesSuch is the gravitational pull cast by Donald Trump and the US economy that the politics of the other 192 countries that make up the United Nati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4994,"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":[246,3406,41,1247,3407,415,587,221,1644,1005,2877,212,3288,1689,419,746,554,930,84,45,47,631,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-antonio-guterres","category-asia-pacific","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-columbia-university","category-donald-trump","category-economic-policy","category-europe","category-gaza","category-israel","category-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pedro-sanchez","category-recep-tayyip-erdogan","category-russia","category-spain","category-trump-administration","category-ukraine","category-united-nations","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74440","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\/4994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74440\/revisions\/74441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}