Big opportunity for other nations to step in and exploit the continent further, just like China with its "influence, military bases and resources in return for jobs and infrastructure" projects.
Maybe some European projects? But I guess we will keep sending Tshirts and cheaper milk instead to further undermine African local economies.
Agreed, and obviously the WHO is highly motivated to say something dire will happen at the withdrawal of large amounts of money.
AID to Africa has largely has been an unintended yet sad disaster. The best example of this is when the British were leaving East Africa in the 1960's they, reasonably, decided to administer the polio vaccine widely. Likely this massively furthered the spread of AIDS, which is thought to have crossed from monkeys to humans sometime in the early 1950s.
You can still find articles seeming to espouse the hypothesis on several sites, but from what I've seen they are all quite old and poorly sourced, with no follow up.
Does anyone actually think that the US will cut funding to the WHO entirely? This strikes me as a clear negotiation tactic: remove the people in charge that have concealed information and acted according to the CCP's whims, and then funding will be restored.
The WH message appears to be that the funding will be cut until WHO is investigated. I suppose this helps prevents a half-assed investigation on the WHO side.
Let's be blunt: this is a blatant attempt to displace the blame for mishandling the emergency. Trump needs popularity because elections are coming, he doesn't want to take the blame for his own actions, so he will blame China, the WHO, and other countries, or his own staff, if things get worse.
At least the US are taking it seriously now. China and the WHO alerted the world that this wasn't a regular flu variant since before January.
On a related topic, thanks to their totalitarian government, China controlled the pandemic effectively, and will recover its economy faster. The US will resort to more commercial war to level up the field.
It's a good example of how much good the USA does in the world.
The reason why the funding cut has happened is obvious.
But this "Just-world hypothesis" by everyone else is just annoying.
WHO did pretty good considering. They are simply not going to be fast moving with unknowns.
We all had the info, we didn't need them to hold our hand and call it a pandemic. We didn't need them to tell us to wear masks. If we wanted to complain about WHO and Taiwan we should have done it last year, now is not the time.
We failed ourselves. And we still are failing ourselves. Simple things we should be doing are still not happening.
> we didn't need them to.. fast moving with unknowns..
They weren't just slow, WHO helped spread false and misleading information, and one of their main reasons for existence is to combat this. If WHO can't be trusted as a source of information, what are they good for?
> If we wanted to complain about WHO and Taiwan
I only just found out about this, now the spotlight is on them. Now is exactly the time, as the main complaint is that the WHO has political motivations that interfere with its main objectives, and this is evidence of that - doubly relevant because if Taiwan weren't being ignored, other countries might handled it as well as they did.
No it won't. It makes no geopolitical sense for the US to sacrifice its influence in an A-list international organization for sake of a few measly million bucks.
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Maybe some European projects? But I guess we will keep sending Tshirts and cheaper milk instead to further undermine African local economies.
AID to Africa has largely has been an unintended yet sad disaster. The best example of this is when the British were leaving East Africa in the 1960's they, reasonably, decided to administer the polio vaccine widely. Likely this massively furthered the spread of AIDS, which is thought to have crossed from monkeys to humans sometime in the early 1950s.
[1] - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n07/edward-hooper/aids-a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPV_AIDS_conspiracy_theory
You can still find articles seeming to espouse the hypothesis on several sites, but from what I've seen they are all quite old and poorly sourced, with no follow up.
Throughout the entire Trump presidency the US has been straining or severing ties with their allies under the guise of "America first".
Hell, I honestly wouldn't be that surprised if he'd announce that the US would be leaving the UN next week.
At least the US are taking it seriously now. China and the WHO alerted the world that this wasn't a regular flu variant since before January.
On a related topic, thanks to their totalitarian government, China controlled the pandemic effectively, and will recover its economy faster. The US will resort to more commercial war to level up the field.
The reason why the funding cut has happened is obvious.
But this "Just-world hypothesis" by everyone else is just annoying.
WHO did pretty good considering. They are simply not going to be fast moving with unknowns.
We all had the info, we didn't need them to hold our hand and call it a pandemic. We didn't need them to tell us to wear masks. If we wanted to complain about WHO and Taiwan we should have done it last year, now is not the time.
We failed ourselves. And we still are failing ourselves. Simple things we should be doing are still not happening.
They weren't just slow, WHO helped spread false and misleading information, and one of their main reasons for existence is to combat this. If WHO can't be trusted as a source of information, what are they good for?
> If we wanted to complain about WHO and Taiwan
I only just found out about this, now the spotlight is on them. Now is exactly the time, as the main complaint is that the WHO has political motivations that interfere with its main objectives, and this is evidence of that - doubly relevant because if Taiwan weren't being ignored, other countries might handled it as well as they did.
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