Kathmandu, March 11 -- Of all the geopolitical stunts Donald Trump has pulled since returning to the White House, the United States' votes at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 4 March stand out as the most revealing.

The US opposed a seemingly innocuous resolution establishing an International Day of Peaceful Coexistence and reaffirming the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite its symbolic nature, the US voted against the resolution, with representative Edward Heartney explaining that the US 'rejects and denounces the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and it will no longer reaffirm them as a matter of course'.

Despite US opposition, the resolution ultimately pass...