Trump’s pick for United Nations ambassador wants to ‘make the UN great again’

The ex-national security adviser tells Senate China must be confronted at the world body, which still treats it as a ‘developing nation’

“Countering China … is critical,” the former Florida congressman said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Waltz called it “absurd” that China, the world’s second-largest economy, was still “treated as a developing nation” and that most UN agencies continued to give the country favourable status.