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    Stop Politicizing Health Issues

    Jun 10, 2021 4 minutes
    By Lan Xinzhen

    Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening of the 74th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) took place via video link on May 24. The assembly highlighted such issues as pandemic responses, the World Health Organization (WHO) reforms and budgets, among other topics.

    However, even before the convening of the assembly, certain countries had already claimed they would file a request with WHO to investigate China regarding the origin of the novel coronavirus. They intended to use WHO as a tool to mount political pressure, for example by proposing to allow China’s Taiwan to attend the assembly, which only allows sovereign countries and regions to participate, and seriously violated China’s territorial sovereignty.

    Although WHO was somewhat distracted by these disruptions, on the whole,

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