Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

Beijing has promised to continue supporting the World Health Organization even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US.

Trump's stances toward the U.N. may create openings for China to boost its influence there. It's not clear that Beijing wants to. The post China May Not Want the U.N. Opening Trump Is Handing It appeared first on World Politics Review.

The Show Me State vows to seize $25 billion in Chinese assets if Beijing doesn't pay damages related to the outbreak of COVID-19.

Beijing would become the undisputed champion of global health if it chose to close the funding gap caused by the looming US withdrawal

China’s Foreign Ministry criticized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, offering an initial look at how Beijing intends to present itself as a force for stability in global affairs during the new administration.

Just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said ... WHO vigorously denies the allegation and says it continues to press Beijing to share data to determine whether COVID emerged from human contact ...

Trump's order said the administration would cease negotiations on the WHO pandemic treaty while the withdrawal is in progress. U.S. government personnel working with the WHO will be recalled and reassigned, and the government will look for partners to take over necessary WHO activities, according to the order.

A surge in cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has prompted some alarm and led to fears of a possible new pandemic

The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.

The top US diplomat said President Donald Trump’s proposal to buy Greenland “is not a joke” because of the risk that China would station resources on the island that threaten American security and the importance of Arctic shipping lanes for energy exports.