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克劳蒂娅·罗塞特   (CLAUDIA ROSETT )
2020年4月15日
特朗普总统决定在审议世界卫生组织在“严重管理不善并掩饰病毒疫情”当中扮演的角色时暂停美国对该组织的资助，这是恰恰正确的。特朗普要求世卫组织整顿其恶劣又具误导性的行为，停止向中国叩头，这不仅是为美国，也是为全世界做了一件重要的事。
但此时出现了担忧的声音，说在这个特殊时刻，正处1918年以来最严重的疾病大流行之际，不该在此时打断世卫组织每年从美国纳税人那里拿到的约5亿美元。世卫组织的一大支持者比尔·盖茨表示这个联合国的卫生部门是无可取代的。北京政府的一名发言人宣称特朗普的决定将会削弱世卫组织，且“损害国际合作。“ 联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯认为世卫组织”对世界努力打赢抗击COVID-19的战役是绝对关键的” ，并且任何对世卫组织的审议应当等到“我们终于翻过了此次疫情的这一页”之后。
不要上当。希波克拉底誓言叮嘱医生们毋傷害，世卫组织章程里对其总干事与其工作人员有类似的要求。但是今天世卫组织的伤害已达到造成全球疫情大流行的规模，以其糟糕透顶的保证（“没有明显证据显示人传人”）、其乖张的指示（“世卫组织建议不要实施任何国际运输的限制”）以及其对中国毁灭性谎言和集权行径的歌颂（“中国应被感谢和尊重”）误导了全世界。
造成当前全球疫情大流行的罪魁祸首是中国掌权的共产党，但这也不代表世卫组织就没错。中国于12月31日通报武汉的疫情爆发，但之后近三周淡化明显的危险，压制来自武汉恐惧的医生们的警告，掩藏在武汉呈指数扩散令人忧心的迹象，直到离开中国的旅客已经把大量的感染传播到国外。世卫组织若不是无知，就是同谋—不论是哪种情况都给人不佳印象，世卫组织数周持续欺骗，称新冠病毒对世界其他地方不构成威胁。
在疾病传播开来时，世卫组织发出了一系列错误信息，包括现在恶名昭彰的1月14日的推文，称中国有关部门未发现“明显证据显示人传人。“ 即便在中国于1月20日承认该疾病在人类之间有高度传染性之后，即便中国在1月23日对武汉全市进行强制封城之后，谭德塞和他的团队依然迟迟不肯敲响严正的警钟。直到1月30日，武汉封城一周后，谭德塞闪电访问北京，向中国的暴君习近平主席献殷勤之后，世卫组织才终于做出国际公共卫生紧急事件的宣布。
COVID-19始於武汉的实验室内，世卫组织助“中国掩藏证据“
特朗普于1月31日限制与中国之间的旅行，减缓病毒传入美国的速度之后，世卫组织（和中国）继续反对任何该类限制（但，当前冠状病毒肆虐全球，中国自身也实施了入境交通运输禁令）。2月初世卫组织执行委员会会议于日内瓦召开时—中国已经正式通报逾17000件冠状病毒病例，超过360人死亡，而美国当时记录了第11件病例—谭德塞在会上重申他对旅行禁令的反对。他告诉委员会中国做得非常好，保护世界免受病毒影响，还称： “在中国以外的任何地方染病的机率非常低。”
世卫组织控制COVID-19的一贯做法大概是这样，包括谭德塞拖延到3月11日才宣布全球疫情大流行。那时疾病已经散布至超过100个国家—世卫组织还叹称，如果大家都仿效中国“了不起的成就”，还是可以得到控制。（与此同时，中国官方控制的媒体报导的头条包括“世卫组织的独立性不应被质疑。“）
现在，谭德塞和他的团队已经不得不改口，考虑到病毒已经散布至中国以外的184个国家和区域，全球累计病例超越200万，超过134000人死亡。近日，随着死亡人数增加，全球陷入恐慌、隔离和接踵而至的经济崩溃，谭德塞和他世卫组织的副手们耗费大量时间呼吁全世界要“团结“—另再加上大笔钞票用于世卫组织继续不断扩张的疾控冒险旅程。（虽然上周谭德塞暂时打断了他全世界团结的呼吁，点名侮辱并攻击台湾的民主政府—台湾政府和世卫组织不同，他们一开始就察觉冠状病毒的威胁，进而采取行动。）
在中国的病毒谎言里，由总干事谭德塞·阿达诺姆·盖布雷耶苏斯带领的世卫组织已成为狂热的帮凶。打着世卫组织的旗帜，谭德塞和他的团队为北京的谎言、抵赖和宣传粉饰太平。他们赞扬中国是透明度的典范、疾病管理的模范，即便在关于中国政府的欺瞒和残暴对待自己人民的惊人报导出现时依然继续。很明显地，谭德塞认为如果美国限制与之间中国的旅行，那会造成世卫组织的严重关切。但如果中国威胁、逮捕或强迫失踪其本国仗义执言的医生和博主们，或把病人锁在家里，任其死亡，却不是世卫组织该管的事。
但世卫组织这种扭曲的标准不应令人惊讶。中国至少在13年前就开始拓殖世卫组织，当时中国的候选人，香港前卫生署署长陳馮富珍，成为世卫组织的总干事，任职10年直到谭德塞接任。陳馮富珍之前在香港由于2003年的非典疫情早期缓慢又失败的反应已经备受争议。该疾病由中国传入香港。在她的领导下，世卫组织在2014年西非埃博拉危机的响应糟糕至极—最后是由美国和数个医疗慈善团体伸出援手。华尔街日报一篇社论于2014年11月4日对此作出评论时说，“自上世纪90年代以来，世卫组织一向都更注重把资源投入于政治活动，而非其对抗疾病的核心任务—丢失了这个职能，也难怪世卫组织在埃博拉还没过于猖狂前无法遏制它。“ 听起来是不是很熟悉？
依照结果看来，在联合国曾有过的严重失误里，2020年世卫组织在处理中国冠状病毒疫情时的失败、谎言、延迟和对北京的谄媚阿谀，和1994年联合国决定无视其维和部队从卢旺达发出、迫在眉睫的种族屠杀绝望的警告不相上下。当时有超过80万人遭屠杀。而当前的全球大流行里，牺牲的人命和受影响的生计已经庞大无比，我们甚至还未得到全面的计数。如果美国继续资助世卫组织，那就是极为不负责任的。在这个不如昔日的联合国卫生机构将世界带往更深的灾难之前，现在就急需一个针对其公共失败和内部腐败的调查。

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Disclaimer: the views expressed in this article are not official U.S. government policy. 
By Claudia Rosett 
April 15, 2020          
President Trump made precisely the right call in suspending U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, pending a review of its role in “severely mismanaging and covering up the coronavirus.” Trump is doing an important service not only to America, but to the world, with his demands that the WHO clean up its abysmal and misleading act, and stop kowtowing to China.
But here comes the chorus of alarms that this particular moment, in the midst of the worst pandemic since 1918, is not the time to interrupt the WHO’s annual intake of roughly $500 million from U.S. taxpayers. Bill Gates, a big backer of the WHO, declares the United Nations health agency irreplaceable. A Beijing government spokesman proclaims that Trump’s decision will weaken the WHO and “undermine international cooperation.” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opines that the WHO is “absolutely critical to the world’s efforts to win the war against COVID-19” and any review of the WHO should wait till “we have finally turned the page on this epidemic.”
Don’t fall for it. The Hippocratic Oath enjoins doctors to do no harm, and the WHO Constitution includes similiar requirements of the director-general and his staff. But today’s WHO has done harm on a pandemic scale, misleading the world with its rotten assurances (“no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission“), its perverse prescriptions (“WHO advises against the application of any restrictions of international traffic“) and its paeons to China’s ruinous fictions and totalitarian ways (“China deserves gratitude and respect“).
Nor does it excuse the WHO that the prime culprit of today’s pandemic is China’s ruling Communist Party. China reported the Wuhan outbreak to the WHO on Dec. 31, but for almost three more weeks downplayed the evident dangers, stifled the warnings of Wuhan’s terrified doctors and hid the alarming signs of exponential spread in Wuhan until travelers leaving China had richly seeded infections abroad. Either the WHO was clueless, or complicit –neither scenario reflects well on the WHO’s deceptive drumbeat, for weeks, that this novel coronavirus was no threat to the rest of the planet.
As the disease spread, the WHO put out a stream of misinformation, including the now-infamous Jan. 14 message on Twitter that Chinese authorities had found “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.” Even after China admitted on Jan. 20 that the disease was highly contagious among humans, even after China on Jan. 23 forcibly locked down the entire city of Wuhan, Tedros and his team delayed sounding a serious alarm.  It wasn’t until Jan. 30, a week after the Wuhan lockdown, and following Tedros’s lightning trip to Beijing to pay court to China’s tyrant, President Xi Jinping, that the WHO finally declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
COVID-19 Started in Wuhan Lab and WHO Helped ‘Chinese Cover Tracks’
Following Trump’s Jan. 31 restrictions on China travel, which slowed the spread of the virus into the U.S., the WHO (and China) carried on objecting to any such restrictions (though, with the coronavirus now amplifying around the globe, China has imposed its own bans on inbound traffic). At a WHO executive board meeting in Geneva, in early February — by which time China was officially reporting more than 17,000 coronavirus cases and more than 360 deaths, and the U.S. was recording its 11th case — Tedros reiterated his objection to travel restrictions. He told the board that China was doing a great job of protecting the world from the virus, adding: “The chances of getting this going to anywhere outside China is very low… .“
That’s been pretty much the tenor of WHO’s approach, at every turn, to COVID-19 control, including Tedros’s delay in declaring a pandemic until March 11. By that time the disease had spread to more than 100 countries — as the WHO intoned that it could still be contained if everyone took a cue from China’s “amazing achievement.” (Meantime, China’s state-controlled press was coming up with headlines such as “WHO’s independence should not be doubted.”)
By now, Tedros and his team have had to adjust their messaging to take into account the virus’s spread to at least 184 countries and regions outside China, with cumulative cases worldwide numbering more than two million, and more than 134,000 deaths. These days, amid a rising death count and global landscape of fear, quarantines and cascading economic ruin,  Tedros and his lieutenants at the WHO spend a lot of time calling for total global “solidarity” — plus lots more money for the WHO to continue its ever-expanding adventures in disease control. (Though last week, Tedros interrupted his calls for total global unity in order to single out for insult and attack the democratic government of Taiwan — which, unlike the WHO, discerned the threat of this coronavirus from the get-go, and acted accordingly.)
In China’s viral deceit, the WHO under the leadership of Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been an enthusiastic accomplice. Wielding the WHO logo, Tedros and his team ran cover for Beijing’s lies, denials and propaganda. They praised China as a model of transparency and paragon of disease management, and continued to do so even as horrific stories emerged of the Chinese government’s deceptions and brutal treatment of its own people. Apparently, Tedros considers it a matter of grave concern to the WHO if America restricts China travel. But if China itself threatens, arrests or disappears its own outspoken doctors and bloggers, or locks sick people into their homes to die, that’s not within the WHO’s purview.
Though, such twisted standards at the WHO should come as no surprise. China began colonizing the WHO at least 13 years ago, when China’s candidate, a former Hong Kong director of health, Margaret Chan, became WHO director-general, serving for 10 years before Tedros took charge. Chan was already controversial in Hong Kong for her slow and bungling early response to the 2003 SARS outbreak that spread from China to Hong Kong. Under her leadership, the WHO’s response in 2014 to the Ebola crisis in West Africa was a debacle — leaving the U.S. and a number of private medical charities to ride to the rescue. Commenting on this at the time, a Nov. 4, 2014, Wall Street Journal editorial noted that “since the 1990s the WHO has devoted ever more of it resources to political activism instead of its core disease-fighting mission — a loss of function that helps explain why the WHO failed to contain Ebola when it was less rampant.” Sound familiar?
If we judge by results, then as UN debacles go, the WHO’s 2020 failures, fictions, delays and Beijing boot-polishing in dealing China’s coronavirus outbreak rank right up there with the UN’s decision in 1994 to ignore desperate warnings from its own peacekeepers of the impending genocide in Rwanda. In that instance, more than 800,000 people were slaughtered. For the current pandemic, the cost in lives and livelihoods is already colossal, and we do not yet have a full tally. It would be gravely irresponsible of the U.S. to simply carry on bankrolling the WHO. An investigation into its public failures and internal rot is urgently needed — now — before the UN’s erstwhile health agency steers the world any deeper into catastrophe.