{"id":1494144,"date":"2022-05-27T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494144"},"modified":"2022-05-27T08:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:02:28","slug":"biden-wants-to-give-the-who-and-china-more-power-after-they-grossly-abused-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wants-to-give-the-who-and-china-more-power-after-they-grossly-abused-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Wants To Give The WHO And China More Power After They Grossly Abused A Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-wants-to-give-the-who-and-china-more-power-after-they-grossly-abused-a-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6946430257_a9d9f6d732_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s astounding that anyone would look at the past two years of illiberal and ineffective lockdowns, forced masking, mandatory vaccinations, and their extraordinary social and economic toll, and conclude that what we really need is for nations to yield more control to a bunch of unelected technocrats in the World Health Organization (WHO). <\/p>\n<p>After the virus may have been juiced up in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/05\/19\/covid-lab-leak-evidence-jeffrey-sachs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lab<\/a>, the unprecedented and pernicious \u201cpublic health\u201d measures adopted by Beijing in response were promptly and enthusiastically disseminated by the WHO, then implemented by complicit governments throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Yet throwing national sovereignty to the wind and granting more power to the WHO \u2014 and to the WHO\u2019s power-hungry puppetmasters in the CCP \u2014 is precisely what the Biden administration had in mind when in January it cooked up a scheme to overhaul the WHO\u2019s International Health Regulations (IHR). <\/p>\n<h2>Biden\u2019s Plan to Hand the WHO More Power<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpolicy-watch.news\/united-states-fast-tracks-world-health-assembly-proposal-to-change-global-emergency-response-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> goal of these <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/gb\/ebwha\/pdf_files\/WHA75\/A75_18-en.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amendments<\/a>, submitted by Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Loyce Pace and under consideration this week by the 75th World Health Assembly, is to \u201cstrengthen the ability of the WHO and Member States to prevent, detect, and respond to future public health emergencies of international concern.\u201d Crucially, unlike the adoption of the concurrently proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/a-primer-on-the-who-the-treaty-and-its-plans-for-pandemic-preparedness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pandemic Treaty<\/a>, which would require a two-thirds majority followed by ratification according to each state\u2019s national law, amendment of the existing IHR only requires a simple majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>Among the more disturbing IHR amendments proposed is the unchecked and arbitrary power granted to the director-general. That official, under Articles 11 and 12, would be able to unilaterally determine a \u201cpotential or actual\u201d public health emergency, even where an event \u201chas not been determined to meet the criteria for a public health emergency of international concern.\u201d Equally distressing is the removal of the requirement for the WHO to seek consent from and engage in consultation with an affected State Party in assessing, monitoring, and responding to a perceived public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>There would also be an onus on the affected State Party to show cause within 48 hours if it rejects the WHO\u2019s offer of assistance. Such guidance would include the assessment of the efficacy of \u201ccontrol measures\u201d already in place and the deployment of \u201cinternational teams of experts for on-site assistance.\u201d Perhaps most chilling is the establishment of a \u201cCompliance Committee\u201d to effectively bully an affected State Party into cooperating with public health recommendations and enlist the support of other State Parties in getting the job done.<\/p>\n<h2>Playing into China\u2019s Power-Grab<\/h2>\n<p>One of the behind-the-scenes winners of this U.S.-authored power grab for the Geneva globalists would be the CCP. An emboldened WHO would pave the way for Beijing\u2019s Health Silk Road (HSR), an emerging third phase of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). <\/p>\n<p>China first announced its ambitious intercontinental trade and infrastructure\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-05\/14\/c_136281412.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strategy<\/a> in 2013 and expanded it in 2015 to encompass public health solutions. The IHR amendments would facilitate a public health emergency industry that China will be strategically and geographically well-positioned to exploit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We know that China stands to gain from this slippery deal because they\u2019ve indicated as much. China has relied on its BRI as a major vehicle for creating and reorienting networks of trade and commerce, using soft power diplomacy to expand its sphere of political and economic influence. Most BRI projects rely on building materials, workers, and finance from China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well before Covid-19 emerged, the CCP was already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7148679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">adapting<\/a> this debt-for-leverage strategy to the global health marketplace. Now, with an estimated one-fifth of its BRI projects \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-china-silkroad-idUSKBN23Q0I1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seriously affected<\/a>\u201d because of the lockdowns, China is relying on its network of railways, ports, highways, oil and gas pipelines, telecommunications, and other infrastructure to position itself as a major player in global health governance and security.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2012, China has signed memoranda of understanding and held regional forums with Asian, European, and Arab League nations. China\u2019s health cooperation in Africa has been most significant, consisting of the provision of medical supplies and training programs, the construction of hospitals, and support for combating infectious diseases. From 2012 to 2014, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2817%2932898-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deployed<\/a> a 1,200-strong medical team to West Africa after the WHO declared Ebola a public health emergency.<\/p>\n<h2>How China Gave Us Covid and then Pretended to Help Fight It<\/h2>\n<p>Yet it was Covid that gave China its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/wadeshepard\/2020\/03\/27\/chinas-health-silk-road-gets-a-boost-from-covid-19\/?sh=7cc368686043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">competitive edge<\/a>, hurling its biotech and <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/static\/vdata\/infographics\/chinavaccine-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pharmaceutical<\/a> industries into the spotlight. Beijing lost no time magnanimously offering countries assistance in fighting a disease that it had manufactured and exported around the world. Medical teams, testing kits, respirators, and personal protective equipment were sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cctv.com\/2020\/03\/17\/ARTIBZIXaU8Cldf1iceYdzp0200317.shtml#:~:text=China%20identifies%20with%20Italy%27s%20urgent%20concerns%2C%20and%20will,construction%20of%20a%20Health%20Silk%20Road%2C%20Xi%20said.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Italy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/latest-concerns-south-koreas-worst-hit-city-69657741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">France<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-06\/06\/c_139117740.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spain<\/a> and eventually to more than 58 countries throughout the world. <\/p>\n<p>President Xi Jinping himself was touting the HSR in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2020\/0325\/c90000-9672120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conversations<\/a> with his French and Italian counterparts in the early stages of the pandemic. Regional alliances representing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.cn\/ce\/cein\/eng\/zgxw\/t1798548.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">central<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinas-silk-road-of-health-builds-soft-power-in-south-asia-say-experts_3599986.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">south<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/asean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AEM-MOFCOM-Statement-on-COVID-19-FINAL-29-May-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">southeast Asian<\/a> countries issued statements pledging to collaborate with China on its HSR in an effort to combat Covid.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, Chinese companies began developing a Covid vaccine, and at the end of the year the first of three vaccines was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-china-idUSKBN29505P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approved<\/a> for general use. By June 2021, China had reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/02\/china\/vaccines-sinovac-sinopharm-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">delivered<\/a> more than 350 million doses to more than 80 countries. Despite often high vaccination rates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/02\/china\/vaccines-sinovac-sinopharm-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new waves of infection<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/06\/03\/bahrain-seychelles-sinopharm-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">persisted<\/a> in many of these regions.<\/p>\n<p>A particularly concerning aspect of the HSR is its convergence with another rhetorical extension of the BRI: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/china-digital-silk-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Digital Silk Road<\/a>. The same artificial intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/stories\/chinas-ai-surveillance-spreads-and-christians-brace-for-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">technologies<\/a> used in China to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/10\/11\/1036582\/darren-byler-xinjiang-china-uyghur-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oppress<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsusa.org\/christian-persecution\/stories\/chinas-ai-surveillance-spreads-and-christians-brace-for-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">religious<\/a> and ethnic minorities and political dissidents are now being employed around the world to forecast outbreaks, detect and monitor infected persons, track quarantine violators, and implement vaccine passports. <\/p>\n<p>Pre-Covid, China\u2019s $150 billion industry exporting surveillance hardware and software gave democracy lovers goosebumps about <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/10\/how-chinas-ai-technology-exports-are-seeding-surveillance-societies-globally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tech-enabled authoritarianism<\/a>. Now, these very technologies have been smoothly <a href=\"https:\/\/cset.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/CSET-Chinas-Use-of-AI-in-its-COVID-19-Response-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rebranded<\/a> as public health tool kits. Meanwhile, the WHO is totally on board with Xi\u2019s master plan. <\/p>\n<h2>WHO Is Doing China\u2019s Bidding on its \u2018Belt and Road\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>In 2017, both parties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2017-01\/19\/c_135995781.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed<\/a> a memorandum of understanding to ramp up \u201chealth cooperation under the framework\u201d of the BRI. During a meeting with then Director-General Margaret Chan, Xi welcomed the WHO\u2019s \u201cactive participation in the construction of the Belt and Road, and of a \u2018healthy\u2019 Silk Road.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Current Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated this in 2017 when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w-e9EL9Vdhk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urged<\/a> China to boost its health care contribution through the BRI. Later that year in Beijing, at a Chinese government-hosted seminar entitled the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.nhc.gov.cn\/2017-08\/18\/c_72262.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Belt and Road Forum on Health Cooperation: Toward a Health Silk Road,<\/a>\u201d Tedros <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/towards-a-health-silk-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lauded<\/a> Xi\u2019s proposal for a Health Silk Road as \u201cvisionary.\u201d Immediately after, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/21-08-2017-new-vision-and-strengthened-partnership-for-who-and-china\">pledged<\/a> an additional $20 million to the WHO for pandemic control along the Silk Road.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Tedros revealed just how \u201cuniversal\u201d the health coverage scheme he shares with Xi is. He <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/05\/1118752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warned<\/a> that Covid is \u201cnot over anywhere until it\u2019s over everywhere.\u201d Tedros\u2019 beef appears to be that testing is down and vaccination rates are not high enough. Put simply, people around the world are moving on and the WHO is not prepared to relinquish control. Hence Tedros\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/english.news.cn\/20220523\/29db4421ad2e4c82a4262704f6238da8\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demand<\/a> for \u201ca stronger and sustainably financed WHO at the center of the global health security architecture.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration evidently agrees that what the world needs is a CCP-compromised WHO with sharper teeth and more skin in the game. A behemoth supranational biosecurity state will be lucrative for the Chinese state enterprises on whose shoulders the task of cleaning up the endless spills will happily rest. It will also be a soft power win for China, playing into Xi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2017\/10\/the-community-of-common-destiny-in-xi-jinpings-new-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ccommunity of common destiny for mankind\u201d narrative<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not good news for the working and middle-class plebs whose tax dollars inevitably fund the self-promoters in Geneva, in return for a mixed basket of surveillance, lockdowns, mandates, and whatever other goodies the WHO has in store for us when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/01-10-2020-the-best-time-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-is-now-countries-join-voices-for-better-emergency-preparedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oft-threatened<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tech\/4503932\/bill-gates-warns-of-deadly-new-pandemic\/\">next pandemic<\/a> arrives at our door.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Carina Benton is a dual citizen of Australia and Italy and a permanent resident of the United States. A recent West Coast \u00e9migr\u00e9, she is now helping to repopulate the country\u2019s interior. She holds a master\u2019s degree in education and has taught languages, literature, and writing for many years in Catholic and Christian, as well as secular institutions. She is a practicing Catholic and a mother of two young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s astounding that anyone would look at the past two years of illiberal and ineffective lockdowns, forced masking, mandatory vaccinations, and their extraordinary social and economic toll, and conclude that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}