preface
Are we going to be old too?
On September 13, 2023, China made it clear that it refused to pay its IAEA dues, totaling 60 million euros.
This contribution is equivalent to 460 million yuan, which is the International Atomic Energy Agency's activity fund for nearly half a year, without which the International Atomic Energy Agency is very likely to stop working within one month.
What is the IAEA and why do we refuse to pay our dues?
Self-made self-acceptance
In fact, the International Atomic Energy Agency has fallen into such an embarrassing situation, which can only be described in one word, that is, "self-inflicted".
The prototype of the International Atomic Energy Agency first appeared in the United Nations General Assembly, when hundreds of countries voted to establish an international body dedicated to regulating and peaceful uses of atomic energy.
As of 2012, the Agency had 153 member States, and since then the mainland joined in 1984, and since then, the continent's contribution to the IAEA has increased every year.
By 2023, the mainland needs to pay membership dues of 60 million euros, making it the second largest "gold owner" of the International Atomic Energy Agency after the United States.
The reason why the mainland's membership fees are so high is not because the IAEA wants to "eat big", but because the United Nations, and most international organizations, are mostly funded by these four categories.
Source
First of all, there is the sharing of funds, which is what we commonly call "membership fees".
Counting and apportioning contributions is a tedious task that needs to be calculated on the basis of the previous year's financial flows plus the budget expenditures for the following year, and finally summarize the amounts.
However, unlike what everyone thinks, such contributions are not "AA system", and the contributions paid by each country are different.
Countries with strong economic capacity or large land areas need to pay more contributions than other countries, such as China, the United States and Russia, and the three countries that need to pay their dues combined, about 70% of the expenses are apportioned.
The weaker economic capacity, such as the Congo, North Africa and other less developed countries, their membership fees are about 0.01%, which is almost equivalent to "the rich hold a money field, and those who have no money hold a personal market".
In this way, it seems to be "eating big households", but if it is compared to the well-known "property fee", it should be understandable that the owner of the house with a larger area needs to bear more property fees.
In addition to economic sharing, the majority of the funding sources of the entire IAEA are "restricted contributions".
What is a "restricted donation"?
We can use public welfare donations as an analogy, for example, a donation project appears on a platform, and the donation target is a child who is seriously ill.
The funds donated to this project will be used to help the sick child, and such donations are called "restricted donations".
The third is "voluntary unrestricted assistance".
This is similar to donating to charity, with no restrictions on the number of recipients or the projects to be donated.
The fourth is revenue funding.
If someone invites the IAEA to provide them with the corresponding services, then the agency can collect a certain amount of money from it.
It is not difficult to see from this point that most of the funding of the International Atomic Energy Agency comes from funding sharing and restrictive assistance, that is to say, this institution is almost "raised" by several major countries, as long as the major countries stop paying dues, then the entire institution will be on the verge of shutdown in an instant.
But at the beginning of 2021, the International Atomic Energy Agency found a new "source of funding", that is, Japan.
According to the cost-sharing standard, Japan's annual membership fee is about 2.5 million euros, but in 2021 alone, Japan provided 720,000 euros of "voluntary unrestricted assistance" to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Why did Japan send money to the IAEA?
Looking at the announcement issued by the IAEA in July this year, everyone must already have the answer in their hearts.
On July 4, 2023, the International Atomic Energy Agency publicly released that it had conducted corresponding investigations and concluded that Japan's nuclear wastewater discharge plan met international standards.
The IAEA blatantly gave Japan a platform, which is easily reminiscent of the 710,000 euros in 2021.
If a comprehensive public institution changes its position because of a certain country's money, does this institution still have authority and is it still worthy of trust?
After the International Atomic Energy Agency opened its eyes and said nonsense about the discharge of Japan's nuclear wastewater into the sea, China Convenience publicly refused to pay its 60 million euros dues.
This is not a "countermeasure", nor is it "retaliation", but I hope that the International Atomic Energy Agency can think of its original intention and understand the meaning of its existence.
If even such a matter of great importance on the earth, the IAEA can turn black and white for the sake of money, then this agency has no need to exist.
But in fact, the International Atomic Energy Agency has done more than this one thing by turning black and white upside down and avoiding the important.
Fight for the tiger
Just after the mainland announced its refusal to pay its contribution to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Russia followed suit and similarly announced its refusal to pay.
Why did Russia do this, and is it also protesting the IAEA's approach to standing up for Japan?
This is just one of them, in fact, the feud between the IAEA and Russia has already arisen in the previous months.
In June 2023, Biden announced that he would supply M1 tanks to Ukraine.
After all, even Poland has provided tanks to Ukraine, but what makes people angry is that in addition to assisting M1 tanks, the United States also announced that it would provide Ukraine with supporting depleted uranium bombs.
Depleted uranium bombs have a certain degree of radioactivity, are a first-class carcinogen, in addition, depleted uranium bombs will also cause almost irreparable pollution to the land, so since the Gulf War, almost all countries have protested, demanding the refusal to produce and use depleted uranium bombs.
But at this time, the International Atomic Energy Agency jumped out again, claiming that depleted uranium bombs will not bring serious radiation consequences to people, nor will they cause too much harm to people.
In order to allow the United States to provide unhindered military aid to Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency did not hesitate to use the Spring and Autumn brushwork to greatly weaken the harm of depleted uranium bombs, which not only cannot be called neutral and objective, but can even be identified as an "accomplice" of war!
"Lao Lai" true color
So what has the United States done, and why is the International Atomic Energy Agency so biased in favor of the United States?
To explain this, it is necessary to turn back to "membership fees".
The mainland needs to pay 60 million euros this year, but the United States needs to pay 77 million euros.
Therefore, on the one hand, the United States is the largest "financial owner" of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and it is also the biggest "old man" of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In 1968, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
But Israel has blatantly violated this treaty, not only developing nuclear weapons on several occasions, but even openly refusing to investigate when the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the door.
Israel, as an ally of the United States, was investigated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the United States was very dissatisfied with this, not only using its influence to help Israel evade international sanctions, but even directly cut off the International Atomic Energy Agency dues that year.
The withdrawal of the largest "financial owner" caused the International Atomic Energy Agency to fall into turmoil, and the United States also saw some room for operation from the "flexion and extension" of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Since then, the United States has begun to use "repayment" and "withdrawal" at every turn to threaten the International Atomic Energy Agency and other neutral institutions, and the United States has even relied on the accounts of the United Nations many times.
In 2020, the United Nations released statistics on its official website, which for the first time mentioned the problem of arrears of member countries.
According to the data, the arrears owed by United Nations members are about $1.4 billion, while the United States itself owes $1.09 billion.
In addition, the United Nations also carries out a number of peacekeeping missions every year, which require funds, and the United States also owes $1.38 billion for these funds.
In other words, the United States, as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations, has even been arrearing its dues to the United Nations.
So, why does the United States owe money, is it because it can't afford to pay?
To put it bluntly, this adds up to less than $2.5 billion, which is almost a drop in the bucket for the United States.
Because the United States' annual military expenditure is around $700 billion, which is not short of this $2.5 billion, and the reason why he owes so much is that he wants to use these contributions to blackmail the United Nations.
In 1991, the United States launched the Gulf War.
This was supposed to be a war of aggression waged for profit, and in order to obtain the consent of the United Nations, the United States promised that if the United Nations agreed, the United States would immediately settle its arrears.
No matter what year it is, it is the uncle who pays the bill.
Under the blackmail of the United States, the United Nations agreed to that resolution, and the United Nations at that time was very naïve in thinking that the United States would honestly pay in the future.
But who knows, it didn't take long for the United States to fall out with the United Nations over Afghanistan, and once again defaulted on its dues to the United Nations.
It is not difficult to see from here that the attitude of the United States towards the United Nations is very contemptuous and philistine, as long as the United Nations agrees with his resolutions, then he is willing to pay, but if the United Nations does not agree, then the United States begins to pay the bill.
As long as there is something that makes the United States dissatisfied, then he will play his true character as a "lai" and deliberately owe money and not pay it back.
In fact, it is not only China and Russia that have refused to pay their contributions to the International Atomic Energy Agency this year, but even the United States.
China and Russia refused to pay this money, purely because they felt that the IAEA was not neutral enough and there was no need to pay fees, so why did the United States refuse to pay its dues?
Is it because the IAEA station is not high enough, or is it not washed thoroughly enough?
After hearing the news of the imminent closure of the International Atomic Energy Agency, no one even sympathized with it, only that it was self-inflicted.
Since a public institution cannot be truly fair and just, then in fact, it has no need to exist, do you think?
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