China is joining the ranks of the United Nations’ fiscal hawks.
Earlier this month, Beijing proposed its steepest cuts in U.N. peacekeeping costs, recommending that more than $150 million be cut from the $6.83 billion peacekeeping budget proposal for 2023/2024, according to an internal U.N. budget spreadsheet reviewed by Devex.
The move, in one sense, aligns Beijing more closely with the U.S., Japan and other large donors, who have been pressing the United Nations for decades to rein in spending on its multibillion-dollar peacekeeping empire. For its part, Washington proposed $190 million worth of cuts in the budget, according to the spreadsheet.