WASHINGTON, April 17 – RIA Novosti. The decision of the President of the United States Donald trump to suspend funding to the world health organization (who), will enable China to take a leading position in the global structures, said RIA Novosti Chas Freeman, former assistant Secretary of defense for international security issues.
on Tuesday, trump said that Washington stops funding who, which, he said, had not provided information about the coronavirus, and also brought the truth to the attention of the world.
“This decision will provoke that in the whole world China will be encouraged to play a more important role in international organizations, because the US comes out of them,” warned Freeman, who as an interpreter accompanied President Richard Nixon to China in 1972.
According to the veteran diplomat, the decision trump was dictated by momentary anger, not rational political considerations.
the Chinese Authorities on 31 December 2019 has informed who of an outbreak of an unknown pneumonia in Wuhan in the Central part of the country (Hubei province). Experts have established that the causative agent is a new coronavirus, and later the disease was officially called COVID-19. World health organization March 11 announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest world health organization, worldwide there were more than 1.9 million cases, more than 131 thousand people died.
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