{"id":25694,"date":"2020-05-19T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/who-a-puppet-of-china-says-trump\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:36:44","slug":"who-a-puppet-of-china-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25694","title":{"rendered":"WHO a puppet of China, says Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Trump said the WHO was against the imposition of a ban on travel from China in late January<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/who-a-puppet-of-china-says-trump\/article31619941.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President Donald Trump once again on Monday attacked the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying the UN health body was a \u2018puppet\u2019 of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump claimed that more people would have died from coronavirus in the country had he not imposed a ban on travel from China, which was \u2018opposed\u2019 by the health agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey (WHO) are a puppet of China. They\u2019re China-centric, to put it nicer,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House. The United States pays them $450 million a year; China pays them $38 million a year, Trump said in response to a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said the WHO was against the imposition of a ban on travel from China in late January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe World Health Organization was against it. They were against me doing the ban. They said you don\u2019t need it, it\u2019s too much, it\u2019s too severe, and they turned out to be wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said Democratic Party\u2019s presidential nominee and former vice-president Joe Biden was too against the ban. \u201cSleepy Joe Biden said the same thing. He said I was xenophobic. I was xenophobic because I said you can\u2019t come in if you come from China. You can\u2019t come into our country, very early. And Biden said I was xenophobic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf I didn\u2019t do that ban, you would have lost hundreds of thousands of more people in this country. It was a very important ban. People don\u2019t like talking about the ban, but it was very important,\u201d the U.S. President said, claiming that it was only he who wanted it. \u201cWe did it and saved thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives probably.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump said the WHO was against the imposition of a ban on travel from China in late January PTI U.S. President Donald Trump once again on Monday attacked the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying the UN health body was a \u2018puppet\u2019 of China. Trump claimed that more people would have died from coronavirus in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}