{"id":18410,"date":"2020-05-19T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T05:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/global-report-trump-threatens-to-pull-out-of-who-over-failed-response-to-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-05-19T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:32:29","slug":"global-report-trump-threatens-to-pull-out-of-who-over-failed-response-to-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18410","title":{"rendered":"Global report: Trump threatens to pull out of WHO over &#8216;failed response&#8217; to pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO showed \u2018alarming lack of independence\u2019 from China, Trump claims; US president says he is taking hydroxychloroquine; Brazil has third highest infections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has threatened to cut funding to the World Health Organization permanently and even pull the US out of the global body altogether unless it makes \u201cmajor substantive improvements\u201d which the president did not explain.<\/p>\n<p>In a four-page letter to the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump claimed the organisation had shown an \u201calarming lack of independence\u201d from China and accused Tedros of presiding over \u201crepeated missteps \u2026 that have been extremely costly for the world\u201d. The letter, he said, followed a US investigation into the WHO\u2019s \u201cfailed response to the Covid-19 outbreak\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/19\/global-report-trump-threatens-to-pull-out-of-who-over-failed-response-to-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO showed \u2018alarming lack of independence\u2019 from China, Trump claims; US president says he is taking hydroxychloroquine; Brazil has third highest infectionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump has threatened to cut fu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,415,346,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-health","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18449,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions\/18449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}