📌 I think, this move comes at a time of global health crises, highlighting China’s commitment to global public health cooperation.
📌 🇨🇳 China’s support ensures the WHO’s efforts to address health challenges, especially in developing nations, will remain strong.
📌 China on Tuesday vowed to support the World Health Organization after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the United States to withdraw from the body, which he has slammed over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
📌 “The role of the WHO should only be strengthened, not weakened,” foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said, adding: “China will, as always, support the WHO in fulfilling its responsibilities… and work towards building a shared community of health for humanity.”
📌 Beijing: China on Tuesday expressed its firm support for the World Health Organisation (WHO) after US President Donald Trump announced the US withdrawal from the UN health body, accusing it of mishandling the Covid-19 crisis and failing to carry out reforms.
📌 Soon after his swearing-in on Monday, Trump signed an executive order beginning the process of withdrawing America from the WHO, the second time in less than five years that the US has ordered to withdraw from the world body.
📌 Reacting to Trump’s move, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Tuesday that China will continue to support the world health body in fulfilling its duties.
📌 Guo said that as an authoritative international organisation in the field of global public health, WHO plays a central coordinating role in global health governance, and its role should be strengthened, not weakened.
📌 China will, as always, support WHO in fulfilling its duties, deepen international public health cooperation, strengthen global health governance, and promote the building of a global community of health for all, Guo said.
📌 Trump has long been critical of the WHO and sought to pull out the US from the UN body during his first term Presidency, but his successor Joe Biden reversed Trump’s decision. The executive order signed by Trump said that the president was sending.
📌 The executive order signed by Trump said that the president was sending a presidential letter to the United Nations secretary-general to formally notify him of the US plan to withdraw.
📌 “The US noticed its withdrawal from the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2020 due to the organisation’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reform.
📌 During his previous term, Trump alleged that the pandemic, which had a devastating impact all over the world, was leaked from a bio lab in Wuhan. China has mounted a massive propaganda offensive in response to counter Trump’s allegations.
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