President Barack Obama warns that the forces of globalization have exposed “deep fault lines” across the globe, calling for a “course correction” to ensure that nations and their peoples don’t retreat into a more sharply divided world.
Obama laments that the world has become safer and more prosperous at the same time that nations are struggling with a devastating refugee crisis, terrorism and a breakdown in basic order in the Middle East. He says governing had become more difficult as people lose faith in public institutions and tensions among nations spiral out of control more rapidly.
“This is the paradox that defines the world today,” Obama says. “We must go forward, and not backward.”
US President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters, September 20, 2016 in New York City (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
In a subtle reference to Donald Trump, Obama bemoans how terrorist networks had spread their ideology on social media, spurring anger toward “innocent immigrants and Muslims.”
“In order to move forward though, we do have to acknowledge that the existing path to global integration requires a course correction,” Obama says.
— With AP
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