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USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:
The Trump administration has officially begun to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grip the globe and infections spike in many states across the U.S.
Congress received formal notification of the decision on Tuesday, more than a month after President Donald Trump announced his intention to end the U.S. relationship with the WHO and blasted the multilateral institution as a tool of China. The White House said the withdrawal would take effect on July 6, 2021.
[...] The formal withdrawal comes as the United States nears 3 million reported coronavirus cases and more than 130,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Globally, there have been 11.6 million cases and almost 540,000 deaths.
Additional Coverage:
Trump administration moves to formally withdraw US from WHO
Trump administration begins formal withdrawal from World Health Organization
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Previously:
(2020-05-20) Trump Threatens to Take US Out of WHO Entirely and Stop All US Funding
(2020-04-15) Trump to Halt Funding to WHO
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:51AM (4 children)
I've got a simple requirement. Admit Taiwan to the WHO.
I see no valid justification for banning them from WHO. Why is the CCP permitted to dictate that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:03AM (1 child)
You mean the Republic of China?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Thursday July 09 2020, @07:35AM
any system with an equivalent of "social credit" (quoted as it's newspeak appropriation of a valid monetary system concept, that used to be called social credit), CANNOT be a RES PUBLICA, because it's the very opposite.
Res publica: sovereign people (sovereign as a matter of fact, optionally underlined by a religion, not because of an arbitrarily drafted piece of paper called the constitution that builds rights out of itself) congregate to rule over interpersonal and common use resources regulations.
Social Credit: a cabal seizes power to regulate any public and potentially private aspect of the people's life, people are subjects.
Now, this isn't to blast China in particular. Democracy and The Republic are a nice concept, we should try it one of these days.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:30PM (1 child)
First, you admit Taiwan to UN and recognize them as an independent country, at which point China would probably invade the island.
You really have to be a fucking idiot not to know these things. Taiwan is NOT A COUNTRY. It was never recognized as a country. It was always "China", either what you call Taiwan today or what you call the mainland. You may as well admit Alaska to WHO.
And this is the problem here. People are fucking politicizing health. WHO was NEVER a political organization. But it always had to kiss everyone's ass to do what it is suppose to do -- try to manage health threats, mostly through vaccination programs and providing help to the "shit hole countries" when they had some public heath problem so that this problem doesn't on your next plane. And WHO has been very, very successful at what they are doing. And if you are not a fucking idiot, you would have seen who.int calls for action about COVID since January. They had daily reports since beginning on JANUARY about it.
https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/29-06-2020-covidtimeline [who.int]
But fuck reality, you have your politics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:02PM
I have been to Taiwan several times. It is a country.
How far does your 50 cents go nowadays?