中国周四宣布将向世界卫生组织捐赠3000万美元，以“表示对联合国卫生机构的支持”。
据世界卫生组织的报道，中国外交部副部长耿爽告诉记者:“中国和中国人民将通过这次捐赠向世界卫生组织表示支持和信任。”日经亚洲评论，一份日本报纸。在过去的一个月里，中国对世界卫生组织的捐款总额达到了5000万美元。
耿还赞扬世卫组织总干事特德罗斯·阿德诺姆·格布列耶苏斯“在鼓励国际合作防止病毒传播方面发挥了重要作用”
这一姿态是在唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布他将于4月14日从世卫组织获得资金后做出的，他称他的政府正在调查该机构在流感大流行早期采取的行动。
特朗普当时表示:“今天，我指示我的政府停止对世界卫生组织的资助，同时进行一项评估，评估世界卫生组织在严重管理不当和掩盖冠状病毒传播方面的作用。”。
奥巴马总统说，美国每年向世界卫生组织提供“4亿到5亿美元”，该机构证实这相当于他们资金的16%日经亚洲评论。
“作为[世卫组织的主要发起者，美国有责任坚持全面问责，”特朗普说。
总统嘲笑世界卫生组织对他停止从中国到美国旅行的批评，这是国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福西博士向总统建议的决定。福西曾多次表示，禁止从中国旅行有助于减缓感染的蔓延。中国是早期流感大流行的中心。
“现实情况是，世卫组织未能及时、透明地充分获取、审查和分享信息。世界依赖世卫组织与各国合作，确保及时分享关于国际健康威胁的准确信息，如果不是为了独立地告诉世界正在发生的事情的真相。世卫组织未能履行这一基本职责，必须对此负责，”总统说。
特朗普还指出，世卫组织1月份发表的评论称，COVID-19不能通过人与人之间的接触传播，该机构未能在中国找到与官方政府声明相矛盾的“可信”消息来源。
图为2020年3月11日，世界卫生组织(世卫组织)总干事特德罗斯·阿德诺姆·格布雷耶苏斯在日内瓦世卫组织总部出席COVID-19新闻发布会.
CHINA DONATES $30 MILLION TO WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IN SHOW OF 'SUPPORT' AFTER TRUMP PULLS FUNDING
China announced Thursday that it would donate $30 million to the World Health Organization to "show support" to the United Nations' health agency.
"China and its people will show support and confidence to WHO by this donation," Geng Shuang, the deputy director for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the press, according to a report by the Nikkei Asian Review, a Japanese newspaper. Chinese contributions to the WHO now total $50 million for the past month.
Geng also commended the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for "playing an important role in encouraging international cooperation to prevent the spread of the virus."
The gesture comes after President Donald Trump announced he would pull funding from WHO April 14, citing that his administration is investigating the actions taken by the agency early on in the pandemic.
"Today I am instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization's role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus," Trump said at the time.
The president said the U.S. provides "between $400 million and $500 million" to the WHO annually, which the agency confirmed amounts to about 16 percent of their funding, according to the Nikkei Asian Review.
"As the [WHO's] leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability," Trump said.
The president derided the WHO's criticism of his move to halt travel from China to the U.S, a decision recommended to the president by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci has said on multiple occasions that banning travel from China, which was the epicenter of the pandemic early on, helped slow the spread of the infection.
"The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet, and share information in a timely and transparent fashion. The world depends on the WHO to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health threats is shared in a timely manner and if it's not to independently tell the world the truth as to what is happening. The WHO failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable," the president said.
Trump also pointed to comments made by the WHO in January that said COVID-19 was not transmittable through human-to-human contact, and the agency's failure to follow up with "credible" sources in China that contradicted official government statements.
A photo taken on March 11, 2020 shows World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attending a press briefing on COVID-19 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
