Mike Waltz, US President Donald Trump’s nominee for United Nations ambassador, vowed on Tuesday to make the world body “great again” – and that he would do so by confronting Beijing’s expanding influence while leading an overhaul of what he described as a bloated, favouritism-plagued institution.
“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…
