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China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.
Washington Post ^ | 21st May 2025 | Lily Kuoa, Vic Chang

Posted on 05/30/2025 5:19:58 AM PDT by Cronos

China has pledged to give $500 million to the World Health Organization as the country is set to replace the United States as the group’s top state donor, expanding Beijing’s global influence in the wake of Washington’s retreat from international cooperation.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong told the World Health Assembly that his country is making the contribution to oppose “unilateralism,” a trait Beijing often ascribes to Washington as relations between the two powers deteriorate.

“The world is now facing the impacts of unilateralism and power politics, bringing major challenges to global health security,” Liu said Tuesday in Geneva. “China strongly believes that only with solidarity and mutual assistance can we create a healthy world together.”

...Beijing, meanwhile, has worked to portray itself as a superior alternative to U.S. power — namely, as a responsible global leader and defender of the international order. Under leader Xi Jinping, China has pursued a more aggressive foreign policy in its bid to replace the U.S. as the world’s preeminent power — a strategy that requires more friends — and has sought to rewrite the rules of the global order in its favor.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: china; who
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1 posted on 05/30/2025 5:19:58 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

It’s because they fret over the worlds health!!


2 posted on 05/30/2025 5:20:50 AM PDT by albie
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To: Cronos

They want to promote unsafe vaccines for the next virus they release?


3 posted on 05/30/2025 5:24:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Cronos

This is for propaganda not health.


4 posted on 05/30/2025 5:29:13 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Cronos

Like the WHO isn’t already a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.


5 posted on 05/30/2025 5:31:40 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Cronos

Oh Oh. Now do the UN.


6 posted on 05/30/2025 5:35:24 AM PDT by pas
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To: Vigilanteman

China did not have a Covid vaccine.

The number of Chinese who died is fantastically large, in the tens of Millions. No one knows the real number because those who collected the data are among the dead


7 posted on 05/30/2025 5:36:21 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert

Just to make sure to have POLTIICS in the field of Science, which will always tip the scale in favor of Politics.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 5:38:41 AM PDT by rovenstinez (Wo)
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To: Cronos

I guess Pete and Roger split it down the middle.


9 posted on 05/30/2025 5:40:23 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: bert

That’s because they welded them in their high rise tenements and refused them basic services like food and medicine.

China has always done unethical things to control its population size……..if this happened at all.

EC


10 posted on 05/30/2025 5:40:37 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: bert

China did not have a Covid vaccine.

“The number of Chinese who died is fantastically large, in the tens of Millions. No one knows the real number because those who collected the data are among the dead.”

Looks like you believe the Chinese propaganda.


11 posted on 05/30/2025 5:43:17 AM PDT by chuckb87
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To: Cronos

China very much wants to promote WEF/Davos style globalism - because it binds the West and the United States, while they themselves will never allow the slightest foreign influence within their own political system and society.


12 posted on 05/30/2025 5:46:43 AM PDT by PGR88
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"global health security"

When a state speaks in terms of oxymorons - particularly given the obvious - it qualifies DJT's actions.

13 posted on 05/30/2025 5:47:41 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: bert

A small price to pay to sow chaos in the world economy from the viewpoint of the Chinese Communist Party. Remember that they butchered between 80 and 110 million of their own people to establish Communism under Mao.


14 posted on 05/30/2025 5:49:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Nervous Tick

What did we get for our billion a year?


15 posted on 05/30/2025 5:49:42 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Cronos

Good. They already own the WHO leadership. At least they are paying for them now.


16 posted on 05/30/2025 5:55:33 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MrRelevant

China has a sick culture ruled by sociopathic criminals. Sometimes it feels like we live in China.


17 posted on 05/30/2025 5:56:19 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Cronos

Apparently you have not been paying attention. China has control over the U.N. for a while now.


18 posted on 05/30/2025 6:00:55 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Cronos

Seems like WHO is more aligned with China’s goals, just like the rest of the UN, than the US is. Hopefully Pres. Trump will start encouraging the UN to abandon New York and move to anywhere in Europe.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 6:12:36 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: antidemoncrat

That sounds like a win. Long overdue.


20 posted on 05/30/2025 6:15:47 AM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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