Trump set the conditions for continuing financing

Washington will completely stop financing WHO and revise its membership if the organization does not carry out reforms within 30 days. This is said in the letter of the American president Donald Trump to the director of the institution Tedros Adano Goebreesus.

According to the head of the White House, his administration conducted an investigation of the unsuccessful, in his opinion, response of WHO to the Pandemia of Coronavirus, which allegedly confirmed many serious fears of Trump. “The lack of independence of the organization from the PRC is especially worried,” the Trump's Epistle said, which he published on his Twitter page.

In particular, the investigation showed that WHO “systematically ignored the trusting report of the spread of the virus in Jun in early December 2019 or earlier,” and also did not conduct an independent investigation of data that contradicted the position of the PRC leadership. Trump claims that the organization knew about the “emergency in the field of healthcare” on December 30, 2019 and did not report this, as the information that the Taiwanese authorities on the transfer of the virus from a person did not provide it to a person.

In mid-April, Donald Trump stopped financing WHO and called the organization “PR agency of China”. In Germany, his decision was criticized, but claims to the organization are also coming from there. The Insider talked with the WHO representative in Russia Melita Vuinovich about whether it was possible to trust Chinese and Russian statistics on how the organization develops its recommendations and checks how countries keep records of Covid: “Checking is not our business.” WHO representative in Russia Melita Vuinovich about fraud with statistics.

And the researcher at the Institute of Chinese Studies (Merics) in Berlin Thomas de Garets Geddes is sure that the growing role of China in WHO is an inevitable phenomenon, which means that organizations need to carry out serious work on ensuring transparency: Chinese prejudice. Why the cart is accused of lobbying the interests of Beijing .