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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: 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]