Heritage’s James Carafano: China Used the WHO To Advance Its Interests

‘China wants the world health organization to investigate itself that would mean a whitewash for China’

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CARAFANO: "It's obviously not a distraction. Great powers, Russia, China, they’re vying for influence in international organization and trying to use them not to get their views of international norms, but to push international norms aside so essentially they can achieve the policies that they want. We have a bold demonstration of this in the W.H.O., the China essential using the organization to advance China’s interests. There are international health regulations that were passed after China failed to meet its obligation during the SARS pandemic. If China had followed those guidelines for this, countries would have had weeks, maybe months warning, but they violated it because it wasn’t — China didn’t perceive it in their interest. So the big dividing line here is between countries that want — who want to have China investigate it and then some that just want the WTO (sic) investigated." MacDONALD: "W.H.O."
CARAFANO: "Yeah, right. Sorry."

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