At the end of January in 2020, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping in Beijing and commended the country’s efforts to control the Covid outbreak. Tedros also praised the Chinese Communist Party’s top leadership for its “openness to sharing information” about the virus and its spread, even though Chinese officials in Wuhan were cracking down on anyone “spreading rumors” about the disease.
Initially, Tedros also advocated against limiting travel with China and recommended that countries keep their borders open. China is a top financial contributor and has major sway in the WHO’s policies. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus with Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in January 2020. / Video Image According to Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), Taiwan warned the WHO about the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the […]
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