President Trump threatened to permanently cut off funding to the World Health Organization and revoke U.S. membership if the group doesn’t make a series of changes meant to curb what he called its pro-China bias
WASHINGTON—President Trump threatened to permanently cut off funding to the World Health Organization and revoke U.S. membership if the group doesn’t make changes meant to curb what he called its pro-China bias.
In a Monday letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Mr. Trump said the organization has shown an “alarming lack of independence” from Beijing and failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
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