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UN confronts uncertainty as Trump's new agenda takes shape

Donald Trump leaves the podium after speaking during the UN General Assembly in September 2017. AP - Seth Wenig

The United Nations and other global organisations are bracing for four more years of Donald Trump, who famously tweeted that the 193-member body was “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time”.

During his first term, Trump cut off funding to the UN’s health and family planning agencies, withdrew from its cultural organisation Unesco and the Human Rights Council, and raised tariffs on China and long-time allies in defiance of the World Trade Organisation’s rules.

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