WHO loses credibility over its censorship for China
The recent announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization has raised questions about its future viability and may signal lingering resentment over its capitulation to Chinese censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last week President Donald Trump signed an executive order initiating withdrawal from the WHO, citing unfair dues and the outsize influence of certain member states on the organization.
This week, serious questions are swirling about the organization’s survival in Washington and in Geneva.
WHO leaders present at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week privately acknowledged the U.S. is serious about its plan to leave the organization and that it will take a big gesture to persuade them to go back in, according to a source speaking on condition of anonymity.
“If the United States withdraws it may well collapse,” said health care consultant Kathleen Sebelius, who served as the Department of Health and Human Services secretary during the Obama administration, in a CNN interview on Monday.
Trump raised the possibility of remaining in the WHO if the organization implements reforms during a Jan. 26 speech.
“Maybe we would consider doing it again. I don’t know. Maybe we would. They have to clean it up a little bit,” he said.
But hopes among WHO supporters that the executive order was merely a negotiation tactic towards reforming but ultimately remaining in the organization were diminished Monday when a news report revealed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been instructed in a memo to immediately cease work with the WHO.
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The WHO lost credibility by bowing to the Chicoms over COVID. So far, they have not found a way to regain the trust of the Trump administration. The US would be okay without the WHO. it does not look like the WHO will be OK without the US.
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