Lessons Learned
With the international community now facing the dual challenges of containing the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and restoring the economy and social activities, international cooperation is needed more than ever to strike a balance between the two goals.
However, U.S. President Donald Trump said on May 29 that his country is “terminating” its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO), days after the White House informed WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus that the temporary freeze of U.S. funding for WHO could become permanent.
The U.S. move to quit the
