The role of the WHO in this crisis has been tarnished by politics

A poisonous cocktail of money and internal and global politics has left the WHO damaged by aligning with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s mendaciousness of the perils and spread of COVID-19.

The influence of China’s Xi Jinping in this crisis on WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is egregious, writes Andrew Caddell. UN photograph by Elma Okic

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

April 8, 2020

OTTAWA—In February of 1997, I was the acting deputy head of information at the World Health Organization, and was invited to a meeting of senior staff in the office of then-director-general Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima. We were arranged in a circle in the director-general’s office at the WHO headquarte...

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