[wumeow]

“China has too much political influence over the WHO, so we’ll withdraw, giving them even more influence over the WHO”

[JumpCrisscross]

"The U.S. has historically been one of the largest funders of WHO." [1]. Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

(Looking at the WHO's largest voluntary contributors [2], I could see the UK, Australia and France withdrawing soon, too.)

[1] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fact-sheet/the-u-s-...

[2] https://www.who.int/about/funding

[wumeow]

> Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

Unless they decide to step up their funding as a soft power play.

This is a better page for viewing the WHO's sources of funding, at least for 2022-23[0][1]. There are three separate categories of voluntary funding and only 6.6% of funds come from Core Voluntary Contributions as displayed in your graph.

[0] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/contributor

[1] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/top25

[ChocolateGod]

The UK won't withdraw from the WHO whilst Labour are in government.

Starmer is many things wrong but one thing he won't do is renegade on international treaties and agreements.

[zeroonetwothree]

The problem is the WHO influence over the US.

[ggm]

Imagine other economies having the temerity to want to understand public health in the USA and how it goes up and down state by state, federal government by federal government.