The WHO Director-General refutes the U.S. rationale for withdrawing from the WHO, calling its criticisms inaccurate.

United Morning Post reported today: "WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom on Saturday (January 24) refuted the reasons given by the United States for leaving the WHO, calling the U.S. criticism of the WHO 'unfounded'."

U.S. Secretary of State Rubio and U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy issued a joint statement on Thursday (22nd), announcing that Washington had formally withdrawn from the WHO. They accused the WHO of "repeated failures" during the pandemic and "continuously harming American interests."

Comment: As a founding member and the largest financial donor to the WHO, the United States not only owes hundreds of millions of dollars in fees but also ignores the WHO's early global warnings and coordination of international anti-pandemic cooperation. It shifts responsibility for its own failed pandemic response onto the WHO. Its so-called "reasons" are essentially an excuse to escape multilateral rules and implement the "America First" policy. Tedros's rebuttal not only clarifies the WHO's professional work and global pandemic efforts but also exposes the real intention behind the U.S. withdrawal - attempting to bypass the multilateral framework to create a health cooperation system led by the United States, while completely ignoring the basic fact that infectious diseases know no borders. The negative consequences of the U.S. action have already become clear: the WHO has been forced to cut staff due to funding shortages, and various global public health projects have stalled. The measles vaccine coverage in Africa has plummeted, and cholera cases in South Asia have surged, seriously weakening the global public health defense.

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