️🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 Foreign Affairs Magazine: Antonio Guterres will leave the UN at the end of 2025 after a decade of cost-cutting amid funding shortages, including the Trump administration's early 2025 freeze of nearly all U.S. contributions for Beijing's crude core. budget.

️🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 Foreign Affairs Magazine: Antonio Guterres will leave the UN at the end of 2025 after a decade of cost-cutting amid funding shortages, including the Trump administration's early 2025 freeze of nearly all U.S. contributions for Beijing's crude core. budget.

The funding gap has meant that the UN has released about $4 billion for humanitarian work this year and processed a payment of $725 million to its main budget, while other donors such as the European Union and some European countries have also cut aid.

Candidates like Rebecca Greenspan and Raphael Grossi emphasize the need for a leaner and more agile UN that focuses on crisis prevention, peace mediation and responsible development spending.