Dear Dr. Tedros

[noseall]

Have you seen what they've done to Australian exports because they had the temerity to suggest an independent enquiry.

No. What have they done to Australian exports?

 

[ajohn]

What useful work are they doing and how have they galvanised international research collaboration?

It's a wing of the UN and employs 7000 people that get up to all sorts in the general health area.

Simon Birmingham says China should respond to claims they are drawing up a hit list of Australian exports, slamming the reports.

He is their trade minister. Notice no mention that there is a list.

Oz politics doesn't need to bring in Oz get elected advisers as our current lot have done. They have their own and it works as well there as it does here. Trump is an extreme example of what they get up to plus being a bit of an idiot at times.

 

[JohnD]

 

[Bodd]

To be fair, quite a few people thought that might be the case.

And who's to say it's won't be the case.???

 

[Brigadier]

Do you really think that cutting the WHO budget will make anything better in the short term?

It may not make things any worse.

 

[SirGalahad]

Its full on Trump deflection mode and the RWR lap it up.

On top he signed an executive order to cut regulations to ostensibly free up corporates for even more sharp practices.

 

[Vinty]

The W.H.O. is tackling outbreaks of disease all over the world.
The countries most at risk are the ones with little or no health infrastructure.
If these countries are not helped then they could become breeding grounds for even worse pandemics.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01121-1

 

[SirGalahad]

No. What have they done to Australian exports?

Filly fishing in the DM probably for another skewed report.

Tensions between Australia and China have been ongoing since 2018 about Australia dumping Barley, on top China has agreed to buy more Barley from the US.

The sweet kicker is that Australia will have to fight this in the WTO courts which have been weakened and these issues drag on.

 

[fillyboy]

Filly fishing in the DM probably for another skewed report.

Tensions between Australia and China have been ongoing since 2018 about Australia dumping Barley, on top China has agreed to buy more Barley from the US.

The sweet kicker is that Australia will have to fight this in the WTO courts which have been weakened and these issues drag on.

The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...rly-exposed-if-trade-tensions-with-china-rise

 

[Notch7]

I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving America’s interests.

Sincerely,

Donald Trump

the real reason is because Trumps management of the crisis is a shambles, so he has done what he knows best: throw out a dead cat.

 

[ellal]

The sweet kicker is that Australia will have to fight this in the WTO courts which have been weakened and these issues drag on.

I wonder what's gonna happen on 01/01/2021?

Quitters have assured us it's gonna be a real hoot

 

[empip]

The Chinese could do worse to Oz, says Reuters
"...China targets Australian barley, but what matters is coal, LNG, iron ore."
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[noseall]

The Guardian.

Gosh yes, an increase in barley (tarrif). Australia must be devastated.