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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
Trump Begins Process Of U.S. Withdrawal From World Health Organization
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: 5, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 08 2020, @10:54PM (10 children)
The American military needs to have an enemy, and so does Trump.
I'm old enough to remember when the Mujahideen were brave freedom fighters, but that was a long time ago and their sons and grandsons have been much more useful as "terrorists".
China was a valuable trading partner until Trump needed an enemy to blame things on, and China is a great choice, as Covid started in China and there is no arguing that they're a fairly brutal dictatorship.
That, however has never been a problem in the past and many our our "friends" are just as brutish as China is.
People like VLM who use the term "Trump Derrangement Syndrome" (sic) are of of course just regurgitating what they've heard on Fox News, and have no interest in the damage the Trump regime is doing to relationships that America might want to rely on in years to come.
I wonder if Americans might want to start having a conversation about divorce? It will be difficult, but it might be for the best all things considered.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Spamalope on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:49AM (5 children)
Xi has taken the CCP back to hardline totalitarian practices.
Lots to choose from, but lets pick one:
Why are people dismissive of things like 'no blacks' restaurant signs, kicking black people out of their homes and herding them down the street with batons as shown in recent videos? Propaganda broadcasts blaming CV-19 on dirty black people.
Why is that the country we should be 'friends' with?
The CV-19 outbreak started at the end of October, was filling hospitals in November. The CCP restricted internal travel but encouraged international travel. The CCP bought up international PPE supplies while claiming first no outbreak, then no human-to-human transmission. They had the 50 cent army make social media posts labeling anyone who wanted travel restrictions a racist via fake social media accounts. (twitter later announced deleting 170k of them)
That's ok why?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:13AM (2 children)
Pics or it didn't happen.
Let's be quite clear. I don't care one way or the other whether we're "friends" with China or not. The people who run the massive corporation I work for however are quite fond of the billions in profits they get out of the country, so they probably take a different view and they definitely have more influence with your government than I do.
We are however "friends" with several countries who do much, much worse things to their own people, and you've never even heard of them.
Those things are all lies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:42AM (1 child)
It was all over Twitter. [usatoday.com]
Do you not get news in NZ? Literally everything there is true and verifiable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:46AM
There is no such thing as "the news" anymore. What used to be called "the news" is now just two sides insulting each other for entertainment and profit.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 09 2020, @01:32AM
Serious question? What behaviour (or lack of ... ?) are you seeing that is motivating you to assert this?
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday July 09 2020, @05:29PM
Because back in the day when Bill Clinton was really rolling on job gutting free trade deals with the third world labor market -- China contributed to his campaign. Now that the Democrats are 100% on the side of job exporting corporations who have the good grace to fly a rainbow flag and post a black square (because meaningless symbolism costs nothing and if they can get those racist border walls torn down, nobody will make over $1/day ever again), they need to pay homage to those who paid megabucks (not some piddly prole's $26).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday July 09 2020, @05:41AM (1 child)
>That, however has never been a problem in the past and many our our "friends" are just as brutish as China is.
>People like VLM who use the term "Trump Derrangement Syndrome" (sic) are of of course just regurgitating what they've heard on Fox News, and have no interest in the damage the Trump regime is doing to relationships that America might want to rely on in years to come.
To be fair, our "friends" who are at least as brutish as China (Saudi Arabia, I'm looking at you) have been our stalwart "friends" for long, long, long before Trump was elected. Our foreign policy has been a mess for a long time, and honestly I'm not sure that Trump has really made it much worse. Basically, he's pissed off the Europeans, and seems to be kowtowing to Russia, but he hasn't really changed much anywhere else.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:26PM
Oh absolutely. I was actually thinking of Indonesia, but the Saudis are not much different really.
US foreign policy has never been about human rights, it has only ever been about US interests, and the rest of the West (including my lot) have just played along.
China has not changed, but the current US administration's attitude has.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:45PM (1 child)
> Covid started in China
Sentinel Surveillace of waste water says otherwise:
Barcelona, 12 march 2019:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1 [medrxiv.org]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday July 09 2020, @02:09PM
An as yet unrefereed report. But very suggestive of earlier existence of SARS-CoV-2.
One wonders why the pandemic didn't explode from Barcelona in March 2019.
Perhaps it was a different, less severe strain that responds to the same tests as the one causing the lethal epidemic?
-- hendrik