China’s Hollow Complaints About Late U.S. Payments to the UN

China has criticized the United States for being behind in paying its assessments for the United Nations’ regular and peacekeeping budgets. China claimed that the U.S. owed about $1.16 billion to the UN’s regular budget and $1.3 billion to the UN’s peacekeeping budget. Upset at the suggestion by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations that Taiwan be allowed to play a greater role in UN specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Chinese UN Mission decided to engage in cheap political games. It complained about the long-standing schedule that the United States has worked out with the UN to pay its assessments to the United Nations, which in any event dwarf China’s payments. The United States funds more than twice as much of the regular UN budget (25%), as China does (12%). China paid its $336.78 million assessment for the regular 2020 budget three months late. The United States has customarily paid its UN dues late, primarily due to differences in timing of the United States and United Nations fiscal years. The U.S. also is unwilling to pay more than 25 percent of the UN’s peacekeeping budget, also making the U.S. the number one contributor, rather than the 28 percent unreasonably demanded by other member states. China’s efforts to paint itself as making great sacrifices to pay all its assessed contributions in contrast to the United States is nothing more than pathetic propaganda.

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