"This is not what a major country should do," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said of Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from UNESCO.

The White House accused UNESCO of supporting “woke, divisive cultural and social causes.” Trump also withdrew the U.S. from the U.N. agency in his first term.

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), citing its anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment,