US to suspend WHO funding.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52289056

Interesting development. Not surprised, though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52289056

Interesting development. Not surprised, though.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52289056

Interesting development. Not surprised, though.

WHO is under the pay and influence of China.. Despite america paying them far more money each year.

Either america is really bad at getting a return for its investment in terms of influence, or its more like just standard trump - someone says something he doesn't like, and he tries to bully his way through them.

Its just amazing how many of his supporters can't see that he is doing exactly what they accuse China of doing..

Good they are crap at their job and are very political

Both of those statements are wrong. They have been brilliant at organising against recent pandemic-threats, like Ebola. They are not political but they do in the real world have to deal with governments that are often foolish, malicious or authoritarian and they do their best to negotiate past them to help their poor citizens. That's what they've been trying to do in China. They had to deal with a regime that to start with persecuted doctors who reported the disease. To some extent, China is still doing it - they recently disappeared a woman scientist who was vocal about it early on. They managed to persuade the rather stupid Chinese leader to let their experts in. It's actually the opposite of Trump's accusations. Notice Trump doesn't go after the Chinese government, who are the real villains of the piece. Presumably he doesn't want to endanger critical supplies coming in to the US.

He's in a narcissistic rage and anxious to blame America's huge coronavirus problem on someone else.
Although it does seem like he was right (for once) to ban flights from China in late January.

Now is definitely not the right time to be suspending WHO funding

Basically, Trump’s just trying to palm off the blame. He doesn’t know what he’s doing and mistakes have been made, so I guess now he figures he’ll pretend someone else is at fault.

It is true that at the crucial early spread phase, the CCP were engaged in face-saving misinformation. During those weeks up to the end of January, they thwarted attempts by WHO medical officials to enter the Wuhan zone and examine the medical data themselves, Trump is right about that.

Part of the problem lies in the way the WHO has been funded up to now. The US has not kept up with existing funding commitments to the UN generally, which has made UN bodies more reliant on other key countries like China, which do foot their UN bills properly. So it's perhaps not too surprising if the WHO leadership were tending to listen to China more.

That article accepts that Trump is a slippery confuser and evader who is using this to distract from his own mishandlings. That said, I agree there's a case that China has also behaved very badly. I just don't think blaming the WHO for it is fully correct.

Both of those statements are wrong. They have been brilliant at organising against recent pandemic-threats, like Ebola. They are not political but they do in the real world have to deal with governments that are often foolish, malicious or authoritarian and they do their best to negotiate past them to help their poor citizens. That's what they've been trying to do in China. They had to deal with a regime that to start with persecuted doctors who reported the disease. To some extent, China is still doing it - they recently disappeared a woman scientist who was vocal about it early on. They managed to persuade the rather stupid Chinese leader to let their experts in. It's actually the opposite of Trump's accusations. Notice Trump doesn't go after the Chinese government, who are the real villains of the piece. Presumably he doesn't want to endanger critical supplies coming in to the US.

China lied, and has lied the entire way through this outbreak.

The WHO has parroted whatever China told them and that is what has spread this virus.

They are still reporting the official figures from the CCP as the truth 😂

So what have the WHO done so far in this crisis? I haven't heard of them doing anything.

He's in a narcissistic rage and anxious to blame America's huge coronavirus problem on someone else.
Although it does seem like he was right (for once) to ban flights from China in late January.

Now is definitely not the right time to be suspending WHO funding

He was not right to ban flights from China. Look at how it ended up - America is now the worst affected country on the planet.