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WHO's One China Policy or No China Policy?

If U.S. President Trump is politicizing the coronavirus, then Director-general of the World Trade Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom is putting the blame on racism for the mass number of coronavirus deaths caused by his misdirection.

By now, countries around the world have felt the consequences after the WHO had ignored the warning sent from Hong Kong and Taiwan in December 2019. When Trump criticizes China for covering up the coronavirus crisis, according to Trump's rhetoric and style it might be more accurate to call it a 'stereotype' rather than 'racism' as China has insisted. However, Tedros' accusation of Taiwan for its 'racist' attack seemed more of a distraction to sway people from his scientific failures and administrative misconducts.

In the case of Taiwan, Yvon Pierre Loufoua, a crosstalker performer of Congolese descent living in Taiwan, spoke from his life experience that the name-calling acts described by Tedros sounded unreal to Taiwan society and culture. Yvon also saw "China's fear of Taiwan's growing international power" through Tedros' agenda to suppress Taiwan in the game of global politics by marginalizing his own ethnicity and identity.

After all, over the past few months, Tedros has demonstrated what scientific positivism is: Even when experts from Hong Kong and Taiwan ceaselessly suggested ways to stop the epidemic, Tedros insisted that no countries should close their borders with China. Moreover, it was not until March that the WHO finally called the Wuhan pneumonia a pandemic and began considering Europe as the hardest hit area outside of China. Maybe Tedros simply attaches great importance to what he considers as empirical data, as he was only willing to react after a large number of coronavirus patients died outside China.

By inference, Tedros must have had evidence to support his claims of Taiwan attacking him with racist comments and death threats--although Tedros has yet to make any details public.

Let us hope that this health expert from the WHO knows about information and cyber security---especially when some 'great and powerful' nation has perhaps been supplying intelligence analysis.

At this point, we should always remind ourselves that we live in an era of information warfare, where there are Chinese reporters posing as Hong Kong and Taiwanese reporters and asking questions at White House press conferences.

Finally, here comes the paradox: If Tedros is a follower of the 'one China' policy upheld by the WHO, he would have handled the matter like his colleague did: WHO advisor Dr. Bruce Aylward rejected Radio Television Hong Kong's (RTHK) question on Taiwan by hanging up the phone during an interview--he demonstrated how Taiwan should not even be brought up outside the China framework according to this logic. Hypothetically, if Tedros was really attacked by Taiwan, by the same policy does it mean that the Chinese government was behind it? Along the same line, should Tedros better lodge a complaint to the PRC's Foreign Ministry instead of directing it to the Taiwan government and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen?

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