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Bloomberg
US President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw altogether from the World Health Organisation (WHO), a move that would leave Chinese leader Xi Jinping as the most prominent voice leading the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
In a four-page letter detailing his grievances with the WHO, Trump called on the group to “demonstrate independence from China,†renewing a complaint that led him in April to temporarily suspend US funding. He posted the
letter on Twitter.
“If the World Health Organisation does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organisation permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization,†Trump wrote to Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
In his tweet, Trump called the letter “self-explanatory.†Still, he gave no other details about the reforms he was seeking or what specific changes might unlock funding.