Starved of cash, the U.N. has made historically large spending cuts and embarked on an efficiency drive. It has closed offices and eliminated a record 3,000 secretariat posts. It has powered down escalators and ignored loose cladding on its 75-year-old headquarters in NY. www.wsj.com/world/the-u-...
The Trump administration has failed to pay billions of dollars owed to the international body, while Beijing has been accused of gaming the budget.