U.S. Republican senators on the 8th proposed a bill to suspend financial assistance to the WHO and the admission of Taiwan as a member state. The picture shows the current WHO Secretary General Tan Desai.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office last month to “return to the WHO,” but some members of Congress are still committed to promoting WHO reform. Republican Senators Scott and Hawley 8 proposed to suspend assistance to the WHO until its leadership is replaced and Taiwan is accepted as a member.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump decided to suspend financial assistance to the WHO last April and announced his withdrawal from the organization in May of the same year because he was dissatisfied with the WHO’s bias toward obedience to the Chinese Communist Party and its assistance in concealing the fact that the Epidemic could be “human-to-human”, thus misleading the world and aggravating the spread of the epidemic. However, Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office to reverse Trump’s decision.
In the face of Biden’s signature “to stop the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO process”, Republican Senators Rick Scott (R-UT) and Josh Hawley (R-UT) jointly introduced the “World health Organization Accountability Act” (WHO The Accountability Act would hold the WHO accountable for shielding China’s concealment of the outbreak.
U.S. Senator Scott, a Republican
Scott said the bill requires the U.S. to suspend financial assistance from taxpayer dollars until the WHO changes leadership and accepts Taiwan as a member. The bill also limits the total amount of U.S. financial assistance to no more than the annual funding from the largest contributor to the WHO.
According to Scott, the WHO exists to provide the world with the latest public health information so that each country can make the best decisions to protect the health of its people, but not only has the WHO failed to meet this mandate, it has let the world down in the Covid19 outbreak. They also preferred to be the Chinese Communist Party’s puppet, repeating false messages and helping the Chinese Communist Party to conceal the outbreak.
Scott also criticized that last February he had urged the WHO to conduct an in-depth investigation and analysis of the source and scope of the outbreak, but there was a delay of almost a year before any action was taken, and still no answers could be given to the outside world, even stopping the investigation of whether the virus originated in China’s Wuhan laboratory.
The WHO international expert panel that went to China to investigate the source of the outbreak said on Tuesday (9) that the most likely hypothesis for the spread of the Chinese Communist virus is through intermediate hosts, and that the possibility of leakage from the virus laboratory is extremely low, so the panel will not track it further.
The WHO stopped inviting Taiwan to attend the WHO conference (WHA) in 2017 because it succumbed to political pressure from the Chinese Communist Party. However, Taiwan’s Minister of Health and Welfare, Chen Shih-chung, commander of the Central Epidemic Command Center, still led Taiwan’s WHO Action Mission to Geneva for three consecutive years from 2017 to 2019 to share Taiwan’s achievements and contributions in health care.
In response to WHO’s unfair treatment of Taiwan in the past few years, Scott pointed out that WHO needs to explain why it refuses to allow Taiwan to become a member, participate in meetings and share information, especially during the severe epidemic. He said that the WHO can be said to be complicit in Beijing‘s attempts to isolate Taiwan. So in the absence of massive reforms at WHO, there is no reason for U.S. taxpayers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a higher amount than any other country, to fund him.
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