President Donald Trump plans to withdraw the US from the United Nations body that deals with education, science and culture for a second time, citing an ideological agenda that it says doesn’t serve US national interests.

"President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO—which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November,

The State Department said that officials are actively engaged with their Chinese counterparts to resolve the situation swiftly.

The State Department says a U.S. government employee has been banned from leaving China while traveling there in a personal capacity

China is refusing to let a U.S. Department of Commerce employee and a Wells Fargo banker leave the country, officials say.