”You seem to have sprained your wrist. Here, let’s apply a tourniquet…around your neck.”
Stranger
The WHO doesn’t have to recognize Taiwan as an independent nation in order to allow it to participate in WHO activities (or at the very least consider its input).
The current WHO leadership appears to cater to China in being implacably hostile towards Taiwan, despite its good record of anticipating and handling the coronavirus pandemic.
“The incumbent (director-general), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, appears to have overtly colluded with China before and during the pandemic, has consistently supported Taiwan’s exclusion, and added insult to injury by accusing Taiwan of racism when it disclosed its December warning of an impending crisis. He needs to be replaced by a competent public health specialist who is experienced in pandemics and immune from China’s politicization.”
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/492777-taiwan-chinas-nemesis-could-be-the-whos-salvation
China even managed to block Taiwan from taking part in the annual World Health Assembly.
If any good comes out of the current WHO-bashing, it should include allowing Taiwanese participation in its programs.
Sounds like a mixed bag of mostly good with some stoopid mixed in, like most things. I’m guessing that the former outweighs the latter, for the most part, which makes Trump’s tantrum over it just another attempted distraction from his own incompetence.
:smack:
International pandemics are not an issue we can just ignore. I doubt many people would disagree with that position right now.
So even if the WHO is ninety percent bad and only ten percent good (which I doubt) then we should still continue funding it for the sake of that ten percent of good work it does while we set up a new organization which will do better.
Trump’s decision to cut off funding to the WHO in the middle of a pandemic is the equivalent of cutting off funding to the armed forces in the middle of a war.
“It’s not the craw, it’s the craw”. 