{"id":158499,"date":"2020-04-20T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T11:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=158499"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:08:04","slug":"easy-to-replace-the-us-contribution-to-the-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/easy-to-replace-the-us-contribution-to-the-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy to Replace: The US Contribution to the WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Easy to replace: The US contribution to the WHO\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/transnational.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ObergComment_OnSite.jpg?fit=701%2C259&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Easy to replace: The US contribution to the WHO\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>16 Apr 2020 &#8211; <\/em>President Trump has taken one more step toward self-isolation of the US from the world community. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/coronavirus-trumps-who-de-funding-as-dangerous-as-it-sounds\/\" >BBC post<\/a> tells who the main contributors to the WHO were in 2018-2019 and \u2013 yes \u2013 you\u2019ll see that the US was the largest contributor.<\/p>\n<p>But at least three things are striking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> The US contribution seems to be only US$ 400; that is the same sum Trump recently gave in military support to Ukraine. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/f35.com\/about\/cost\" >price<\/a> of just one Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft ranges between US$ 90 and 115 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the larger scheme of things, the WHO is a cheap organisation and the real priorities of the US are crystal clear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We can\u2019t afford millions on something so useless as the WHO. We have more useful things to spend our money on!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> China contributes US$ 86 million to the WHO and doesn\u2019t rank among the ten largest contributors. So, if China is influencing the WHO as much as Mr. Trump argues, it is at least not through money.<\/p>\n<p>He is also critical that the WHO should have praised China\u2019s handling of the Coronavirus too much. Well, if you read these three factual and reliable articles, there are quite good reasons to praise China \u2013 and learn from it \u2013 not the least if you fight Corona in the Western world:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/covid-19-how-china-broke-the-chain-of-infection\/\" >How China broke the chain of infection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/04\/insights-into-chinas-victory-over-the-coronavirus\/\" >Insights into China\u2019s victory over the Coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2020\/03\/30\/how-the-coronavirus-changed-our-lives\/\" >How the Coronavirus changed our lives<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> It ought to be peanuts for the world\u2019s countries and private donors to contribute more and thereby do two important <em>good<\/em> things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>show their commitment to this world-important UN organisation by compensating the loss of the US contribution <em>at least<\/em> 100% in this situation, and<\/li>\n<li>thereby reduce or abolish US bullying and money-based attempt to dominate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-158511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors-814x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors-814x1024.png 814w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors-239x300.png 239w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors-768x966.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors-1221x1536.png 1221w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors-1628x2048.png 1628w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/who_funding_donors.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jan-oberg-e1544531797544.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-123949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/jan-oberg-e1544531797544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>TFF Director Prof. Jan Oberg is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/2020\/04\/16\/easy-to-replace-the-us-contribution-to-the-who\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 transnational.live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It ought to be peanuts for the world\u2019s countries and private donors to contribute more and thereby do two important good things:<br \/>\n*show their commitment to this world-important UN organisation by compensating the loss of the US contribution at least 100% in this situation, and<br \/>\n*thereby reduce or abolish US bullying and money-based attempt to dominate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":123949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[867,1913,417,244,1829,1868,1126,1050,1864,249,124,70,1836,75],"class_list":["post-158499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anglo-america","tag-bill-gates","tag-bullying","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-pandemic","tag-trump","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}