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'Not the time': Trump faces global criticism over move to end WHO funding
President Donald Trump's move to halt funding to the World Health Organization has been met with severe criticism at home and abroad, with the United Nations secretary-general saying "now is not the time" for such a drastic move while the coronavirus pandemic is gripping the globe.
Trump made the announcement Tuesday pending a review of the WHO's response to the initial coronavirus outbreak in China. He claims the agency has been too close to Beijing and covered up for its mistakes.
Congressional Democrats are disputing the president's authority to do this. Meanwhile Republican lawmakers are planning their own investigation, examining the early response by the WHO and the Chinese government.
"Now is a time for unity in the global battle to push the COVID-19 pandemic into reverse, not a time to cut the resources of the World Health Organization, which is spearheading and coordinating the global body's efforts," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement Tuesday.
China meanwhile expressed "deep concern" about Trump's announcement, its foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a briefing.
"As the most authoritative and most professional organization, the World Health Organization has played an irreplaceable role in global public health crisis," the spokesman said. "The decision of the U.S. will undercut the ability of the WHO and damage the global cooperation of fighting the epidemic."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-time-global-criticism-grows-104128723.html
Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 4, 2020
Trump halts World Health Organization funding amid coronavirus pandemic
Politics
Trump halts World Health Organization funding amid
coronavirus pandemic
By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland
ReutersApril
14, 2020, 3:30 PM PDT
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Trump halts World Health Organization funding amid
coronavirus pandemic
U.S. President Trump leads daily coronavirus response
briefing at the White House in Washington
By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on
Tuesday he would halt funding to the World Health Organization over its
handling of the coronavirus pandemic while his administration reviews its
response to the global crisis.
Trump told a White House news conference the WHO had
"failed in its basic duty and it must be held accountable." He said
the group had promoted China's "disinformation" about the virus that
likely led to a wider outbreak of the virus than otherwise would have occurred.
The United States is the biggest overall donor to the
Geneva-based WHO, contributing more than $400 million in 2019, roughly 15% of
its budget.
The hold on funding was expected. Trump has been
increasingly critical of the organization as the global health crisis has continued,
and he has reacted angrily to criticism of his administration's response.
Trump went ahead with his announcement, which drew immediate
condemnation, despite significant pushback within his administration,
especially from top health advisers, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, did not
name names. But opposition was apparently based in part on concern about
undermining international cooperation in the fight against the virus.
The World Health Organization is a U.N. specialized agency -
an independent international body that works with the United Nations. U.N.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday it was "not the
time" to reduce resources for the body.
"Now is the time for unity and for the international
community to work together in solidarity to stop this virus and its shattering
consequences," he said.
American Medical Association President Dr. Patrice Harris
called it "a dangerous step in the wrong direction that will not make
defeating COVID-19 easier" and urged Trump to reconsider.
Democratic Representative Nita Lowey, who heads the U.S.
House of Representatives Committee that sets government spending, said Trump
was making a mistake.
"The coronavirus cannot just be defeated here in the
United States, it has to be defeated in every conceivable location throughout
the world," she said in a statement.
The Republican president recently accused the WHO of being
too lenient with China in the earliest days of the crisis, despite having
himself praised China in January for its response and transparency.
Trump has made frequent use of scapegoats during his short
political career. He often lashes out at the media, Democrats, or others when
he feels attacked or under pressure.
Trump said the WHO failed to investigate credible reports
from sources in China's Wuhan province that conflicted with Beijing's accounts
about the coronavirus' spread and "parroted and publicly endorsed"
the idea that human to human transmission was not happening.
"Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into
China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China's
lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained ... with very
little death," Trump said.
Trump said the U.S. review of the WHO's role "in
severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus" was
likely to take 60-90 days.
ILLNESS, DEATH AND ECONOMIC CHAOS
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19, the highly contagious
respiratory illness caused by the virus, topped 25,700 on Tuesday, out of more
than 600,000 known U.S. infections, according to a running Reuters tally.
Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and the U.S.
economy has been crippled as citizens have stayed home and businesses closed,
casting a shadow over Trump's hopes of being re-elected in November.
The WHO has been appealing for more than $1 billion to fund
operations against the pandemic. The agency needs more resources than ever as
it leads the global response against the disease.
Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins
University Center for Health Security, said the WHO does make mistakes and may
need reform, but that work needs to take place after the current crisis has
passed.
"It's not the middle of a pandemic that you do this
type of thing," he said.
Adalja said the WHO collects information about where the
virus is active in every county in the world, which the United States needs to
help guide decisions about when to open borders.
Trump said Washington would discuss with global health
partners what it will do with the millions of dollars that would normally go to
the WHO and said the United States would continue to engage with the
organization.
Trump has long questioned the value of the United Nations and
scorned the importance of multilateralism as he focuses on an "America
First" agenda. Since taking office, Trump has quit the U.N. Human Rights
Council, the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, a global accord to tackle climate
change and the Iran nuclear deal.
Under the WHO's 2018-19 biennium budget, the United States
was required to pay $237 million - known as an assessed contribution, which is
appropriated by Congress - and also made some $656 million in voluntary
contributions that were tied to specific programs.
Voluntary U.S. funding for the WHO has been used to address
such health issues as polio eradication, vaccines, combat HIV, hepatitis and
tuberculosis and the health of women, newborns and children.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland; additional
reporting by Michelle Nichols in New York, Matt Spetalnick in Washington and
Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Writing by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Chris
Reese, Leslie Adler, Cynthia Osterman, Michael Perry and Lincoln Feast.)
Chủ Nhật, 12 tháng 4, 2020
Russia Slams Trump’s Space Mining Order
Science
Russia Slams Trump’s Space Mining Order
The government body likened the policy to colonialism and said it “hardly sets the countries to fruitful cooperation.”
“There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its interest — everyone remembers what came of it,” Roscosmos’ deputy general director for international cooperation, Sergey Saveliev, said in a statement.
Trump’s order classifies outer space as a “legally and physically unique domain of human activity” instead of a “global commons,” paving the way for mining the moon without any sort of international treaty.
“Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space,” the document states, noting that the US had never signed a 1979 accord known as the Moon Treaty. This agreement stipulates that any activities in space should conform to international law.
This is not the first time the US is addressing space mining by issuing an order. In 2015, the US Congress passed a bill explicitly allowing companies and citizens to mine, sell and own any space material.
That piece of legislation included a very important clause, stating that it did not grant “sovereignty or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body.”
The section ratified the Outer Space Treaty, signed in 1966 by the US, Russia, and a number of other countries, which states that nations can’t own territory in space.
Trump has taken a consistent interest in asserting American power beyond Earth, forming the Space Force within the US military last year to conduct space warfare where needed.
The country’s space agency NASA had previously outlined its long-term approach to lunar exploration, which includes setting up a “base camp” on the moon’s south pole.
Trillion-dollar market
The US isn’t the first nor the only nation to jump on board the lunar mining train.Russia has been pursuing plans in recent years to return to the moon, potentially travelling further into outer space.
Roscosmos revealed in 2018 plans to establish a long-term base on the moon over the next two decades, while President Vladimir Putin has vowed to launch a mission to Mars “very soon.”
Premium: U.S. Oil Production Has Already Peaked
Luxembourg, one of the first countries to set its eyes on the possibility of mining celestial bodies, created in 2018 a Space Agency (LSA) to boost exploration and commercial utilization of resources from Near Earth Objects.
Unlike NASA, LSA does not carry out research or launches. Its purpose is to accelerate collaborations between economic project leaders of the space sector, investors and other partners.
Thanks to the emerging European network, scientists announced last year plans to begin extracting resources from the moon as early as 2025.
The mission, in charge of the European Space Agency in partnership with ArianeGroup, plans to extract waste-free nuclear energy thought to be worth trillions of dollars.
Both China and India have also floated ideas about extracting Helium-3 from the Earth’s natural satellite. Beijing has already landed on the moon twice in the 21st century, with more missions to follow.
In Canada, most initiatives have come from the private sector. One of the most touted was Northern Ontario-based Deltion Innovations partnership with Moon Express, the first American private space exploration firm to have been granted government permission to travel beyond Earth’s orbit.
Space ventures in the works include plans to mine asteroids, track space debris, build the first human settlement in Mars, and billionaire Elon Musk’s own plan for an unmanned mission to the red planet.
Geologists as well as emerging companies, such as US-based Planetary Resources, a firm pioneering the space mining industry, believe asteroids are packed with iron ore, nickel and precious metals at much higher concentrations than those found on Earth, making up a market valued in the trillions.
By Mining.com
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