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US terminating all relationships with WHO—Trump
Citing that China is in total control of the World Health Organisation, President Donald Trump, speaking in the White House Rose Garden this evening said the US has terminated relationship with WHO.
Trump spoke, announcing measures aimed at punishing China over role in COVID-19.
“We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and directing those funds” to other global public health charities, Trump says.
“The world is now suffering as a result of the malfeasance of the Chinese government,” he says, adding that China “instigated a global pandemic that has cost over 100,000 American lives”.
China, he says, “pressured the World Health Organization to mislead the world” about the virus.
“Countless lives have been taken and profound economic hardship has been inflicted all around the globe,” he adds.
Trump: ‘China has total control over WHO
Trump’s criticism of the WHO started last month when he threatened to permanently withdraw US funding if the body did not “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days”.
“It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world,” Trump wrote in a letter to the WHO director-general on 18 May.
“The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China.”
In today’s White House speech, Trump said “China has total control over the World Health Organization”, despite paying the organisation a fraction of what the US does.
China has accused the US of being responsible for the spread of the virus on its own soil, attributing the outbreak to American “politicians who lie”.
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