Podcasts | The Economist Asks: António Guterres

Does the United Nations still work?

This week we speak to António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations

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SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS after the foundation of the United Nations, host Anne McElvoy and Daniel Franklin, The Economist’s diplomatic editor, ask Secretary-General Guterres whether the organisation still works. The dysfunctional relationship between its three dominant powers, America, China and Russia, has dangerous consequences — does the UN need to reinvent itself to work with them? And could the WHO’s relationship with China have undermined its efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus? Runtime: 29 min

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