President Donald Trump dropped a virtual time bomb on the World Health Organization in the middle of its annual gathering, giving its chief 30 days to make changes or lose funding from its biggest donor
Washington applauded the measure in a“The greatest act of courage is to play as a team,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking after the resolution passed. “This does not mean that once the dust will have settled and once we have delivered on our pledge to beat this virus, we should not look into ways to modernize the WHO, to see what should be done for the WHO to continue to live up to the new challenges, because we need multilateral approaches.
Europe’s support for the WHO comes amid escalating tensions with China. The desire to better understand how an animal virus managed to make its way into human lungs is also addressed in the resolution — an inquiry that would require cooperation from Beijing — and Trump’s concerns about China’s early transparency are widely shared by Western governments., said Beijing would back “the idea of a comprehensive review of the global response to COVID-19 after it is brought under control.
However, it added, “conducting such a review during the heat of the response, even in a limited manner, could disrupt WHO’s ability to respond effectively.” That ties into Trump's accusation that Tedros slow-walked the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at China’s behest. Yet the oversight committee said the varied responses by countries to that declaration, issued on January 30, “raises questions about whether Member States view a PHEIC declaration as a sufficiently clear trigger.”
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