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Trump Formally Cuts Ties With Who
I shall have to go and find a link in a minute.
The WHO said a couple of weeks ago.. nah business as usual because Trump won’t take the US out of WHO.
They are going to be $440m and 15% a year short on their spends.
The WHO said a couple of weeks ago.. nah business as usual because Trump won’t take the US out of WHO.
They are going to be $440m and 15% a year short on their spends.
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The thing that is so grating is that even if Trump's claims about the WHO are right then quitting it is arguably the worst response to that. The US is one of WHO's biggest funders and, it follows, has the potential to be quite influential. When a huge player in an organisation quits they abandon all possible claims to influence and all attempts to actually solve the problem.
What, I wonder, is Trump's proposed replacement? It is pretty clear and obvious that a global health threat requires a global health organisation to respond to it, so I hope he has a plan. Except, of course, he doesn't. Quitting the WHO is a clear and obvious distraction technique, deflecting attention from the US's own response, which, despite a promising start*, simply stalled and has led the US to 100,000+ deaths with no real sign that they are anywhere near the end of the crisis yet.
Trump does enjoy boasting about how quick he was to cut off travel from China. This is true. What he seems to forget is that this on its own was never going to stop the spread of Covid-19, merely slow it down and buy time. What did the US do with that time? Nowhere near enough. Not even close. There's no point in boasting about a half-finished job. Sadly, Trump seemed incapable of seeing that he had to follow up the early action with more preparatory measures that came far too late.
What, I wonder, is Trump's proposed replacement? It is pretty clear and obvious that a global health threat requires a global health organisation to respond to it, so I hope he has a plan. Except, of course, he doesn't. Quitting the WHO is a clear and obvious distraction technique, deflecting attention from the US's own response, which, despite a promising start*, simply stalled and has led the US to 100,000+ deaths with no real sign that they are anywhere near the end of the crisis yet.
Trump does enjoy boasting about how quick he was to cut off travel from China. This is true. What he seems to forget is that this on its own was never going to stop the spread of Covid-19, merely slow it down and buy time. What did the US do with that time? Nowhere near enough. Not even close. There's no point in boasting about a half-finished job. Sadly, Trump seemed incapable of seeing that he had to follow up the early action with more preparatory measures that came far too late.
This isn't the way to stand up to the Chinese Government. It's the same with the Paris Treaty on Climate Change. When the US left, it handed China the moral high ground, one that they absolutely should never have been given. Leaving the WHO is similar. All it does is do the Chinese Government's work for them.
As a final point, the biggest thing lacking in Trump's approach to China is his curious decision to attack the country but not the leader. Xi Jinping and the CCP are the problem, but it seems that Trump is determined to butter those people up at every opportunity. Wouldn't it be more effective if he attacked the leadership but not the country as a whole?
As a final point, the biggest thing lacking in Trump's approach to China is his curious decision to attack the country but not the leader. Xi Jinping and the CCP are the problem, but it seems that Trump is determined to butter those people up at every opportunity. Wouldn't it be more effective if he attacked the leadership but not the country as a whole?
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This is the sort of thing I mean. Compare those tweets, strongly in praise of Xi, with the ones below:
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This is the sort of thing I mean. Compare those tweets, strongly in praise of Xi, with the ones below:
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Timelines are everything when you have what appears to be changing views.
Praise when you are trying to negotiate and work with then you don’t have to when you are at each other’s throats.
At the end of the day all the liberals won’t credit Trump with any semblance of reasonableness. He will always be a joke for not playing by the sycophantic rules.
Praise when you are trying to negotiate and work with then you don’t have to when you are at each other’s throats.
At the end of the day all the liberals won’t credit Trump with any semblance of reasonableness. He will always be a joke for not playing by the sycophantic rules.
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