"This is not what a major country should do," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said of Donald Trump's decision ...

Washington had been a buffer against China’s efforts to use UNESCO to influence education, historical designations and even ...

Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing ...

The decision comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year absence that began ...

The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...

China is poised to expand its influence within UNESCO and the broader UN as the Trump administration once again retreats from ...

UNESCO runs the influential World Heritage Sites program. There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States ...

The restoration of the historic city's iconic Al-Nouri Mosque and Al-Hadba Minaret was just one of many programs run by the U ...

"China Flexes Muscles at UN Cultural Agency, Just as Trump Walks Away" - while reporting on the US once again withdrawing ...

The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical ...

Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the ...

The United States is pulling its funding and support for an international cultural agency for the second time.