China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic(thetimes.co.uk)
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China, the WHO and the power grab that fuelled a pandemic
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-the-who-and-the-power-grab-that-fuelled-a-pandemic-3mt05m06n
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> “Tedros’s main opponent was Nabarro, whose first-hand experience of the WHO leadership’s incompetence during the ebola crisis had convinced him of the need for reform. Nabarro was not alone in his concerns about the WHO, and he reportedly received support from the US, the UK and Canada. This appears to have been the first time the West had woken up to China’s creeping influence over the health agency.”
> “The contest between the two men for the WHO director-generalship took place under new rules that had been introduced by Chan. Previously, the director-general had been chosen by the 34 members of the WHA executive board, but the new rules gave an equal vote to all the assembly’s 194 member states.”
> “Critics of the rule change, such as J Michael Cole of the Canadian think tank the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, have pointed out that the WHO was essentially copying the electoral system that propped up the famously corrupt regime of the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter.”
> “As with football’s governing body, tiny countries that might be susceptible to financial aid were given an equal vote to countries many times their size. Cole said tiny island countries such as those in the Pacific were “easy targets” for Chinese influence.”
Damning as it is, this is not the whole story, but just the tip of the iceberg that we are still colliding with.
That research in Wuhan was exported from the US when it was forbidden for being excessively risky, which is why certain western experts conspired in early 2020 to deflect any thought that the virus could have a lab origin, or using their own word, was “engineered”.
Those experts were being paid handsomely to PREDICT these pandemics, and they might instead have caused this one. Now they’ll ask for even more money to protect us from the ongoing fallout, in an endless wheel of grift.
> “The contest between the two men for the WHO director-generalship took place under new rules that had been introduced by Chan. Previously, the director-general had been chosen by the 34 members of the WHA executive board, but the new rules gave an equal vote to all the assembly’s 194 member states.”
> “Critics of the rule change, such as J Michael Cole of the Canadian think tank the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, have pointed out that the WHO was essentially copying the electoral system that propped up the famously corrupt regime of the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter.”
> “As with football’s governing body, tiny countries that might be susceptible to financial aid were given an equal vote to countries many times their size. Cole said tiny island countries such as those in the Pacific were “easy targets” for Chinese influence.”
Damning as it is, this is not the whole story, but just the tip of the iceberg that we are still colliding with.
That research in Wuhan was exported from the US when it was forbidden for being excessively risky, which is why certain western experts conspired in early 2020 to deflect any thought that the virus could have a lab origin, or using their own word, was “engineered”.
Those experts were being paid handsomely to PREDICT these pandemics, and they might instead have caused this one. Now they’ll ask for even more money to protect us from the ongoing fallout, in an endless wheel of grift.
Mirror: https://archive.is/sj91d
This just tries to shift away the blame from our lax measures. We had ample time to react and did pretty poorly to contain it and continue to do so. Were we able to contain the spread of variants?
It would’ve been racist to close the border.
No it wouldn’t have, but OP also said nothing about that
China is the single greatest threat to world peace, democracy, and human rights. They don’t take responsibility for their mistakes, there is no transparency, and the very act of their own citizens questioning the governments actions can lead to a bullet in the head. Many will say that America has the same problems, but at least you’re not putting ethnic minorities in concentration camps and covering it up.
When Chernobyl exploded, the Soviet union tried to cover it up until they could no longer do so. The difference here, is that China has been successful in covering up their negligence and responsibility for this pandemic, and I fear no policy maker in the west will hold them responsible. Why would they? China fuels American debt, China makes our iPhones, and what would we do without iPhones?