China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/
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The US has thrown most of it’s soft power it has been building up for decades right out the window… Well, no we know who’s outside the window picking it up…
No surprise. We (the US) just handed them the opportunity to very easily gain a ton a global soft power that they’ve been trying to get for decades, if not since WWII. Between these and the stupid tariffs bs, China is about to give a master class on how to shift global power. Watch US treasury bonds over the next year and it’ll tell the story. Fuck you, MAGA.
Time to sell usd hehe good luck there in America
China must be laughing its collective ass off. Their rise to #1 superpower status is being brought forward in leaps and bounds because of Americas current foreign policy.
You don’t kill a golden goose because it demands for grass every day.
This self-own move by the US is quite similar to what the Soviet Union did in 1950 at the UN. They boycotted the UN because of a dispute over the representation of China. The soviet union realised their mistake in few months (see the 1950 UN resolution on Korean war) and got back to the UN within few months.
Let’s see if the US is at least aware/smart enough to realise its mistake.
I hate to say it, but this is how you lose most respected status and somebody else stepped straight in takes it.
That’s a major win for the CCP. It will gain significant power and influence at a low cost.
If the US could stop treading on rakes for just five minutes….
China playing the long game stocking up on soft power.
MAGA voters gonna experience what it’s like not to be living in a country that is the envy of the world.
Stupidly obvious play to grab some soft power from an obviously stupid person.
The WHO will now produce a new album after years.
lol
The United States spends 80 years accumulating hard and soft power around the globe, only for Donald-fucking-Trump to piss it all away in a few months.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
This is a deathblow to the U.S. China will become THE global economic power.
I hope everyone is ready to learn Chinese
China is just collecting all the brownie points for free, hyuge 4D chess move by Trump.
Nah China is just being 👍
Honestly apart from the political aspects of it I think there’s a lot of common sense just behind this, nobody wants another f****** pandemic wiping out millions of people
More soft power gifted to an economic and political rival superpower. The USA will be permanently diminished…
Well, there you have it. The US has been officially replaced by China
China has been waiting and preparing for a Donald Trump for a longass time. USAs role in the world will fade to the history books.
Ths stupidity from the US side just simply cant be true unless its deliberately done.
Who needs the WHO, when you can just follow MAGA’s health advice, eat boatloads of Vitamin A, die of liver failure, future pandemic problems solved.
But i thought their economy was in the 🚽 because of the tariffs! You mean it isn’t so?😱
lol.
Bit by bit US leadership will be taken away.
Xi sends trump his best regards
We are slowly but surely losing all of our political influence across the world thanks too, Donald Trump.
>**Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.**
>China has pledged to give $500 million to the World Health Organization as Beijing is set to replace the United States as the group’s top state donor, expanding China’s global influence in the wake of Washington’s retreat from international cooperation.
>Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong told the World Health Assembly (WHA) that his country was making the contribution to oppose “unilateralism,” a trait Beijing often ascribes to Washington as relations between the two powers deteriorate.
>President Donald Trump ordered the U.S.’s withdrawal from the WHO in January, which would leave Beijing as the top donor and most powerful member country.
>“The world is now facing the impacts of unilateralism and power politics, bringing major challenges to global health security,” Liu said on Tuesday in Geneva. “China strongly believes that only with solidarity and mutual assistance can we create a healthy world together.”
>China’s pledge of $500 million, which Liu said would be given over the next five years, is one of the clearest examples of Beijing’s efforts to step into a global leadership void left by Trump as the president pursues his “America First” foreign policy.
>“The Trump administration’s attacks on and contempt for international governance have offered new opportunities for Chinese diplomacy,” said Zhao Minghao, a professor of international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai.
>At the WHA on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the organization “moribund” and “mired in bureaucratic bloat.”
>Beijing, meanwhile, has worked to portray itself as a superior alternative to U.S. power — namely, as a responsible global leader and defender of the international order. Under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing has pursued a more aggressive foreign policy in its bid to replace the U.S. as the world’s preeminent power — a strategy that requires more friends — and has sought to rewrite the rules of the global order in its favor.
>Even before Washington’s isolationist turn, China had been expanding its influence at organizations like the United Nations. Of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, China is the top contributor of U.N. peacekeepers. On a visit to Europe last week, Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun said his country would contribute more to peacekeeping operations.
>The goal, analysts say, is to shape international norms to Beijing’s liking as well as entrench the role of China in global supply chains.
>Under Trump, the U.S. is locked in a trade war with China and has threatened sky-high tariffs on rivals and allies alike.
>Zhao said he expects Beijing to play a bigger role in international cooperation when it comes to public health, but also climate change and the green energy transition. China produces more than 60 percent of the world’s electric cars and 80 percent of the batteries that power them.
Bit by bit, it’s these small changes. Muricans won’t even wake up until they’re firmly on the sidelines.
It’s OK. Everything China does is bad. Sleep well America. Sleep well.
Trump has been punked so bad and we all must ride along…thanks magats.
500 million is chicken feed and a scoop for soft power projection, trump absolutely treats international diplomacy as a card game yet time and again he gets owned at the table
To be fair, their science experiment did take out a few million people.
Wow, we done Tronald Dump.
Don’t blame us, when nobody loves you…
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