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Following a U.S. move to withdraw from the WHO, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has chosen to side with the health agency and berate Washington. According to The Associated Press, CCP Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called the move “another demonstration of the U.S. pursuing unilateralism, withdrawing from groups and breaking contracts.†Zhao went on to affirm the organization’s role as “the most authoritative and professional international institution in the field of global public health security,†and indicated that this decision would hinder the global effort in combating the pandemic and cause difficulties to the developing countries that are “in...
