Once each year, the great powers of the world converge on New York — not by accident, but by design — to speak across their differences and, ideally, to remember what they share. The 81st UN General Assembly High-Level Week has drawn nearly 130 heads of state into that familiar ritual, this time under a theme that quietly confesses the moment's difficulty: restoring trust, managing transformation. Among them is President Trump, whose bilateral meetings will be watched as early dispatches from an administration still defining its posture toward a multilateral order that is, by the UN's own admi