{"id":20820,"date":"2020-07-22T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/mike-pompeo-attacks-who-in-private-meeting-during-uk-visit"},"modified":"2020-07-22T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:00:04","slug":"mike-pompeo-attacks-who-in-private-meeting-during-uk-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20820","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pompeo attacks WHO in private meeting during UK visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state said the World Health Organization was responsible for Britons who had died from Covid-19<\/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>The US secretary of state Mike Pompeo launched an extraordinary attack on the World Health Organization during a private meeting in the UK, accusing it of being in the pocket of China and responsible for \u201cdead Britons\u201d who passed away during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo told those present that he believed the WHO was \u201cpolitical not a science-based organisation\u201d and accused its current director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of being too close to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/21\/mike-pompeo-attacks-who-in-private-meeting-during-uk-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state said the World Health Organization was responsible for Britons who had died from Covid-19Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US secretary of state Mike Pompeo launched an extraordinary attack on the Wor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1462,"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":[50,1069,472,299,52,47,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-mike-pompeo","category-science","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-health-organization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820","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\/1462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20822,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}