“We paid $ 500 million a year and China paid $ 39 million a year despite having a much larger population. We know?
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“They presented me $ 39 million, they said:” We will let you return for $ 39 million, “they will decrease it from [$ 500 million] to [$ 39 million], and I refused, because it has so popular that I did not know if it would be well earned Even in [$ 39 million], but maybe we would plan to do it again, I don’t know, they have to blank a little. “
WHO director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, shakes the hand of Chinese President Xi Jinping, before an assembly in Beijing in 2020. (Naohiko Hatta/Pool Photo AP, Archive)
An analysis of national contributions to the WHO from NPR found that the U.S. pays for roughly 10% of the WHO’s budget, while China pays about 3%.
Trump withdrew the United States from the WHO from an executive order published hours after being sworn in last week. The president cited reasons such as the WHO’s “mishandling of the Covvi-19 pandemic,” the “lack of emergency reforms,” and “unfairly wanted payments” for the United States. Trump’s first term, in July 2020, took steps to withdraw the United States from the WHO, however, his successor, former President Joe Biden, despite the fact that everything restored the country’s participation in the Global Fitness Initiative.
Trump got rid of the US United States of an Executive Decree published hours after being oath. (Photo Reuters / Denis Balibouse / File)
The president’s complaints about the U.S. paying too much to the WHO mirror his complaints about U.S. participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well. During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, Trump said he was asking all NATO nations to contribute 5% of their gross domestic products to NATO defense spending.
NATO established a 2% threshold that countries have to pay in 2014, but, according to Trump, “most nations have not paid” until they begin to press so that other countries give more contribution. However, according to NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, countries such as Spain, Italy and Canada have not yet complied with this 2%contribution.
Secretary General Mark Rutte holds a press convention at NATO headquarters in December 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)
Following Trump’s demands that NATO members spend 5% of their gross domestic product, he questioned whether the U.S. should be spending anything on NATO at all, telling reporters from the Oval Office that the U.S. was protecting NATO members, but those same members are “not protecting us.”
“I’m not sure we spend anything, but in fact we help them,” Trump said from the Oval office.
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