Posted on 05/05/2020 10:22:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
After accusing Taiwan of launching “personal attacks” and a “racist campaign” against him at a news conference on April 8, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus quickly stirred up another controversy over whether the WHO had ignored Taiwan’s warning at the end of last year about possible human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
That dispute extended the battle of words between Tedros and Taiwan, with unexpected results.
It turned into a “battle of unequals” initiated by Tedros, but his display lacked meticulous tactical thinking and effective strategic adjustments. Taiwan used this to its advantage by highlighting the effects of its epidemic prevention efforts and successes.
It also allowed Taiwan to promote its “Taiwan can help” strategy, which has given the nation more visibility internationally than it has experienced in decades, while also focusing global attention on its outstanding epidemic prevention efforts.
All this has helped Taiwan create an international environment more conducive to once again opening the doors to the World Health Assembly (WHA).
How did Taiwan manage to turn the tide?
Tedros had already been the target of international criticism during the early stages of the pandemic following a series of pro-China statements, as well as a stream of misjudgements regarding the virus, including the denial of human-to-human transmission in a tweet posted by the WHO as late as Jan. 14.
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Tedros is a commie, but I’d assume Taiwan communicated these concerns to her allies as well (U.S. included)? What actions did we take in response at the time? Did we really take Xi and Tedros’ promises over those of the Taiwanese? Yes, it is China’s fault, but are we really that gullible?
He’s also affirmative action hire.
That’s racis. He was hired for his unflinching allegiance to communism.
Read the article, he’s a racist, communist chi-com sympathiser who dumped racism all over his comments. The ROC are a lot like Israel... only through the backing of free people do they exist. To bad our production is in chi-com rather than ROC.
US out of UN. UN out of US.
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