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How China pulls the strings from the World Health Organization

2020-04-09T18:07:11.188Z


INVESTIGATION - Taking advantage of the American withdrawal from the multilateral system, China is pushing its pawns and its candidates for strategic positions to impose its standards.


The cold war between the United States and China reached a new stage by settling in WHO, the World Health Organization. Donald Trump, whose country is the main contributor to this United Nations agency, has threatened to withdraw to protest against the pro-Chinese bias of its director, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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The American president and the republican senators reproach the WHO for having underestimated the importance of the epidemic, to have made itself “ accomplice ” of the “ flagrant operation of dissimulation ” of Covid-19. Under pressure from China, the WHO did not declare an international emergency in late January and criticized the US administration when it closed the country's borders to travelers from China. She took up the language of the Chinese Communist Party without any distance. Worse: its president has repeatedly praised the Chinese authorities for their " transparency »Since the start of the crisis! When we

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Source: lefigaro

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