15 Apr 2020, 4:40 pm
It's just like steering a buss off a cliff out of spite.
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16 Apr 2020, 12:20 am
domineekee wrote:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/how-to-make-china-pay/
The World Health Organization (WHO) has only a weak, non-binding dispute-resolution mechanism, but China’s failure to promptly report the coronavirus outbreak to the organization violated the International Health Regulations, which require states to notify the WHO of potential public-health emergencies “of international concern.”
In fact, China has used its financial war chest to manipulate the WHO. China’s annual funding of the organization, which relies on voluntary donations, has increased to $86 million since 2014 (a rise of 52 percent). The WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has praised China’s leadership for its “openness to share information” with the international community and stated that China “has bought the world time” regarding the coronavirus. In January, the WHO parroted China’s line that there was no “clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.” The WHO has also followed the Chinese line on Taiwan, excluding it from membership and barring it from COVID-19 response meetings. While some scholars have suggested that a larger budget would make the WHO more effective, the Trump administration has rightly halved America’s contribution. Not only has the WHO become a Chinese client, but it also spends $200 million a year on luxury travel. The U.S. should investigate the WHO and its director general and expose their ties with China.
https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/fighting-coronavirus-pandemic-chinas-influence-world-health-organization
Because Ms. Margaret Chan, former director of health of the Hong Kong SAR and the first PRC national to run a UN agency (from 2006 to 2017), and because of the insistence by China’s public diplomacy on human welfare, it has often been said that WHO was directly under Chinese influence: this only shows in the success of China’s campaign to curtail participation of Taiwan. Ms. Chan’s two mandates were lackluster, marked by some polemics at the time of Ebola, by a strange episode of praise for North Korea’s health system, and by several stands against Taiwan for not “respecting” fully the “One China” principle. Ms. Chan’s election in 2006 was the last one to be run with WHO’s Executive Board’s pre-selection of a single candidate, the members of the organization were then asked to ratify this choice. By contrast, in 2017 the members of WHO chose along a panel of 3 pre-selected candidates, and Tedros came ahead with 133 votes out of 186 – a margin that even China’s influence cannot explain, but that has to do with his status as representing “the global South”.
Once affiliated with Ethiopia’s Liberation Front, Tedros has been educated in infectiology and malaria prevention. He has been a minister of foreign affairs and minister of health, and cuts a much more flamboyant figure than Ms. Chan. Indeed, he comes from a country and a continent that is easily critical of Western actors, yet he has gone down well with many private health donors. During the current crisis, he has defended his praise of Beijing by the need to obtain cooperation. Yet it took WHO a month and a half – between China’s first report to WHO of an “unknown illness” and February 13 – to send a full expert WHO mission on the ground in China, and with very limited access to Wuhan
The World Health Organization (WHO) has only a weak, non-binding dispute-resolution mechanism, but China’s failure to promptly report the coronavirus outbreak to the organization violated the International Health Regulations, which require states to notify the WHO of potential public-health emergencies “of international concern.”
In fact, China has used its financial war chest to manipulate the WHO. China’s annual funding of the organization, which relies on voluntary donations, has increased to $86 million since 2014 (a rise of 52 percent). The WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has praised China’s leadership for its “openness to share information” with the international community and stated that China “has bought the world time” regarding the coronavirus. In January, the WHO parroted China’s line that there was no “clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus.” The WHO has also followed the Chinese line on Taiwan, excluding it from membership and barring it from COVID-19 response meetings. While some scholars have suggested that a larger budget would make the WHO more effective, the Trump administration has rightly halved America’s contribution. Not only has the WHO become a Chinese client, but it also spends $200 million a year on luxury travel. The U.S. should investigate the WHO and its director general and expose their ties with China.
https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/fighting-coronavirus-pandemic-chinas-influence-world-health-organization
Because Ms. Margaret Chan, former director of health of the Hong Kong SAR and the first PRC national to run a UN agency (from 2006 to 2017), and because of the insistence by China’s public diplomacy on human welfare, it has often been said that WHO was directly under Chinese influence: this only shows in the success of China’s campaign to curtail participation of Taiwan. Ms. Chan’s two mandates were lackluster, marked by some polemics at the time of Ebola, by a strange episode of praise for North Korea’s health system, and by several stands against Taiwan for not “respecting” fully the “One China” principle. Ms. Chan’s election in 2006 was the last one to be run with WHO’s Executive Board’s pre-selection of a single candidate, the members of the organization were then asked to ratify this choice. By contrast, in 2017 the members of WHO chose along a panel of 3 pre-selected candidates, and Tedros came ahead with 133 votes out of 186 – a margin that even China’s influence cannot explain, but that has to do with his status as representing “the global South”.
Once affiliated with Ethiopia’s Liberation Front, Tedros has been educated in infectiology and malaria prevention. He has been a minister of foreign affairs and minister of health, and cuts a much more flamboyant figure than Ms. Chan. Indeed, he comes from a country and a continent that is easily critical of Western actors, yet he has gone down well with many private health donors. During the current crisis, he has defended his praise of Beijing by the need to obtain cooperation. Yet it took WHO a month and a half – between China’s first report to WHO of an “unknown illness” and February 13 – to send a full expert WHO mission on the ground in China, and with very limited access to Wuhan
Wot he said.
16 Apr 2020, 12:31 am
Biscuitman wrote:
Pepe wrote:
NEWS FLASH!
Trump withholding funds to the World Health Organisation!
Hoowa!
Trump withholding funds to the World Health Organisation!
Hoowa!
'quick, look over there!'
Yep, but the W.H.O. needs to be scrutinised.
*That* is the important message.
Trump is allowing the focus on the organisation's "failings",
And that is a damned good thing.
"Quick, look over there!"
And you will miss the importance of what is, errr, important.
Regardless of WHO is yapping,
Regardless of their personal self-interest,
The message needs to be voiced,
Where the W.H.O has failed us,
To mitigate the possible re-emergence of this scourge,
As a result of undue political influences perverting the facts,
And crippling early responses.
I thank you.
<bow>
<Exit stage centre>
16 Apr 2020, 12:39 am
Pepe wrote:
Darmok wrote:
About time.
In a parallel development, at least one university has closed its "Confucius Institute." The Chinese government funded the creation of "Confucius Institutes" at universities all across the US, and university presidents, always willing to sell themselves for cash, were delighted. But the Confucius Institutes are actually thinly disguised communist propaganda units that have been inserted into the US higher ed system. I expect more of them will be closing soon.
In a parallel development, at least one university has closed its "Confucius Institute." The Chinese government funded the creation of "Confucius Institutes" at universities all across the US, and university presidents, always willing to sell themselves for cash, were delighted. But the Confucius Institutes are actually thinly disguised communist propaganda units that have been inserted into the US higher ed system. I expect more of them will be closing soon.
Quick!
Dig up Joseph McCarthy.
The reds are literally under the beds!.
I think McCarthy was right.
16 Apr 2020, 12:44 am
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16 Apr 2020, 12:48 am
^Makes ya wonder how his name could even be allowed on the ballot come November after saying all that crap.
I saw a news report today that said just because trump said it doesn’t mean he can or will actually do it - just like a lot of other things he says. So until the $ actually stops being sent them the USA hasn’t defunded the WHO.
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goldfish21 wrote:
^Makes ya wonder how his name could even be allowed on the ballot come November after saying all that crap.
I saw a news report today that said just because trump said it doesn’t mean he can or will actually do it - just like a lot of other things he says. So until the $ actually stops being sent them the USA hasn’t defunded the WHO.
I saw a news report today that said just because trump said it doesn’t mean he can or will actually do it - just like a lot of other things he says. So until the $ actually stops being sent them the USA hasn’t defunded the WHO.
There is an old adage which goes something like this:
Don't believe what is said.
Observe what is done.
In my mind,
Trump has no credibility. Meh.
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