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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: 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.