{"id":150584,"date":"2026-04-29T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150584"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:39:41","slug":"un-bloated-costly-but-china-fears-should-keep-us-involved-house-committee-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150584","title":{"rendered":"UN bloated, costly, but China fears should keep US involved, House committee told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United Nations is bloated, costly, badly in need of reform, and too often works against US interests, but pulling out of the international organisation would see China expand its influence and leave Washington at a major disadvantage, according to testimony before a House oversight committee on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe hearing came as the administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed an \u201cAmerica first\u201d overhaul of international funding, leaving the UN, over the past 18 months, at what&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3351920\/un-bloated-costly-china-fears-should-keep-us-involved-house-committee-told?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United Nations is bloated, costly, badly in need of reform, and too often works against US interests, but pulling out of the international&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}