Trump Admin Attacks China and UN Population Control Agency

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UNITED NATIONS, June 6 (C-Fam) The Trump administration blasted the UN population agency for working with the population control bureaucracy of the Chinese Communist Party and for promoting gender ideology and DEI.

A U.S. statement at the executive board of the UN population agency this week explained that the administration’s decision to withhold funding to the agency was due to UNFPA’s continued involvement with the Chinese government’s population control programs. “For decades, the United States has called on UNFPA to end its partnership with the Chinese government agency responsible for implementing coercive policies,” the statement explained.

Millions of families and generations of women were subject to “barbaric forced abortions and involuntary sterilization”, it says. “Where is their justice? UNFPA’s silence on the health and well-being of those women suffering still today is deafening.”

The statement announced that the administration had no other choice but to apply the Kemp-Kasten Amendment. That law requires the executive branch to withhold federal funding to agencies or programs that involve coercive population control.

Even though the one-child policy was abolished a decade ago, China still has an active population control regime managed by a powerful bureaucracy that does not leave spouses free to decide on the number and spacing of their children. China’s policy currently allows families to have a maximum of three children, up from a single child under the one-child policy.

The U.S. statement further questioned why the agency is still providing foreign assistance to China at all. “We urge the Executive Board to ask why UNFPA still subsidizes technical assistance for a country with the second largest economy in the world,” it says.

While everyone expected a defunding announcement from the Trump administration, it still caught the agency heads off guard.

The executive director of UNFPA, Natalia Kanem, was quick to dismiss the accusations of the U.S. government as “unfounded.” She said working with UNFPA was a guarantee against coercive population control. However, reports emerged in recent weeks raising questions about UNPFA’s credibility. Population control programmes carried out against Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been going on for years. UNFPA has been on the ground since the beginning of the refugee crisis, but has only now begun to speak up against the abuses.

The U.S. statement also criticized UNFPA for promoting abortion, gender ideology and diversity, equity, and inclusion, and other controversial social policies.

“The United States must urge UNFPA to remove divisive cultural concepts from its programming, especially diversity, equity, and inclusion; gender ideology and sexual and reproductive health,” the statement reads. It also called on the agency to drop all gender language and to refer to women as women and men as men.

The UN population agency has been at the forefront of promoting controversial programming for decades, including lewd and inappropriate comprehensive sexuality education programming, sexual rights for children, abortion on demand for women and minor girls, transgender rights, and woke gender policies. The agency even promotes “gender-affirming” treatment and surgery as a part of “sexual and reproductive health” services, and that these should be made available to adolescents.

The U.S. statement was delivered during a session of the executive board of the agency this week as UN talking heads were reeling from the $9.4 billion rescission package sent to Congress by Trump’s budget office. The rescission package asks Congress to ratify the administration’s decisions to withhold funds for some U.S. Agency for International Development programs and international agencies. It states that the UN has “taken advantage” of U.S. taxpayers.

 

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