As the United Nations General Assembly draws 130 world leaders to New York, the gathering that may most determine humanity's near-term course is taking place elsewhere — in Washington, where Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet bilaterally to navigate wars, energy crises, and the contested architecture of a fracturing world order. The UN convenes amid active conflict between the US and Iran, a school bombing the UN has flagged as a potential war crime, and alliances from Riyadh to Ottawa strained to breaking point. History has often been shaped less by grand multilateral forums than by the qu
Trump-Xi Meeting Looms as Global Crises Multiply at UN Assembly
US strikes on Iranian school killed 120 children; ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, and Congo continue causing unspecified casualties and displacement.