Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The World Health Organization and the Chinese Government

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/02/china-coronavirus-who-health-soft-power/

How the WHO Became China's Coronavirus Accomplice

>>>"Most critically, Beijing succeeded from the start in steering the World Health Organization (WHO), which both receives funding from China and is dependent on the regime of the Communist Party on many levels. Its international experts didn’t get access to the country until Director-General Tedros Adhanom visited President Xi Jinping at the end of January. Before then, WHO was uncritically repeating information from the Chinese authorities, ignoring warnings from Taiwanese doctors—unrepresented in WHO, which is a United Nations body—and reluctant to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” denying after a meeting Jan. 22 that there was any need to do so.<<<<

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