Trump Should Hold His Horses
President Trump drew out a double-edged sword by freezing American funds to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The United States is the largest donor to the WHO , contributing more than $400 million in 2019, roughly 15% of WHO’s budget. Not everyone, however, disagrees with President Trump’s calls to reform the WHO. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for instance, sympathised the President’s contention with the WHO. Earlier, Prime Minister Morrison criticized WHO for supporting the reopening of wet markets in Wuhan - the prime suspect of where the Covid-19 virus originated. Still, the Australian premier hesitated to “throw the baby with the bathwater” by freezing funds to WHO. Criticisms against the WHO is not new. In 2010, WHO was accused for hastily declaring the H1N1 a pandemic, leading to unnecessary panic-buying of vaccines. Conversely, health experts criticized WHO for the delay in declaring the 2013-2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an internation
