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"Unless its China-trusting chief resigns, the World Health Organisation's pandemic failures will be weaponised by President Trump's assault on global institutions.”

“WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should resign immediately in the interests of the World Health Organisation and the wider United Nations-led multilateral system. US President Donald Trump has weaponised COVID-19 and Tedros has handed Trump the opportunity to damage further the rules-based multilateral system.”

"Tedros took the Chinese leadershipʼs reassurance at face value. Whether out of naivety or because he had done the calculus that wider interests would be served better by doing so."

“With COVID-19, Tedros should have and could have done much better.”

“And still the WHO director-general sleep-walked through this. To its great credit, the Australian government acted with alacrity and against the advice of the WHO and banned travel from China.”

Read the full transcript in the Australian Financial Review:

https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/why-the-bell-must-toll-for-who-chief-tedros-20200417-p54kpe