{"id":4184,"date":"2021-09-23T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=4184"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:43:07","slug":"shadow-boxing-debate-at-the-76th-session-of-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/09\/23\/shadow-boxing-debate-at-the-76th-session-of-un-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"198: Shadow Boxing: Debate at the 76th Session of UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pic: Courtesy The Diplomat<\/span><\/p>\n

During the general debate on the 21 Sep 21, Speech by US and Chinese president was interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Link to US president speech<\/strong><\/span><\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/09\/21\/remarks-by-president-biden-before-the-76th-session-of-the-united-nations-general-assembly\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Link to Chinese president Speech:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.news.cn\/english\/2021-09\/22\/c_1310201230.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Punches<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Biden spoke about democracy and universal human rights, hinting at defending democracy and human rights from creeping authoritarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xi spoke only fleetingly of human rights through development and democracy as not a special right reserved to any individual country.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xi used U.S. failure in Afghanistan as a counterpoint to global challenges emerging out of Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xi\u2019s message to developing countries is that China has emerged from deep poverty to the world\u2019s second largest economy whereas, USA has been invading and fighting foreign wars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Selling China<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Xi prioritised economic development while decrying sovereignty-violating foreign military interventions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s speech constituted an explicit pitch to developing countries for a post-U.S. dominant world order hinged to China\u2019s economic development model.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Xi laid out initiatives including international aid and debt relief for the needs of less-developed members of the U.N.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Common Denominators<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Both leaders made specific commitments to address the global challenges of Covid-19<\/strong> with pledges of vaccine doses to countries that lack them and financial support for the World Health Organization\u2019s COVAX equitable vaccine supply initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Climate change<\/strong> figured prominently in both speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n