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“That’s a big one,” Donald Trump said as he signed an order to remove the US from the World Health Organization, again. The move requires congressional approval and a one-year notice period, but it is big.
America is the WHO’s top donor, providing $1.3 billion in funding between 2022 and 2023. Health experts have said the US leaving the WHO would devastate global surveillance and epidemic response efforts while weakening its own influence on health policy.
Trump’s executive order cited the WHO’s “mishandling” of the Covid pandemic (a nod to China), “inappropriate political influence” from member states (again, China), and “unfairly onerous payments” (compared with China’s).
Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman said China would continue to support the WHO, which “should only be strengthened, not weakened”.
