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Quick Take: Trump pulls out of the WHO, moves toward Cold War with China
Ian Bremmer: Trump Pulls Out of the WHO | Move Toward Cold War with China | Quick Take | GZERO Media

Quick Take: Trump pulls out of the WHO, moves toward Cold War with China

Trump promised a statement about China. Today's announcement was not about China. Most significant was about the World Health Organization, which is a distraction for Trump because it's weaker. They're reliant on the US, have no ability to hit back. But announcing they're pulling all funding and pulling out of the World Health Organization, the international governmental organization tasked with responding to pandemics, in the middle of a pandemic, is one of the stupidest foreign policy decisions that President Trump could make.

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Ian Bremmer: Trump vs the WHO & Political Distractions from Effective Crisis Response
Ian Bremmer: Trump vs the WHO & Political Distractions from Effective Crisis Response | GZERO Media

Ian Bremmer: Trump vs the WHO & Political Distractions from Effective Crisis Response

The big news has been the Americans getting into a fight with the World Health Organization, with the Chinese for the original cover up, complicity. We don't want to be beating up on the World Health Organization. They are there to fight a pandemic. As Rumsfeld said about war, you don't fight a pandemic with the W.H.O. you want. You fight a pandemic with the W.H.O. you have. This is the W.H.O. we have.

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Is coronavirus under control in Europe?
Path to Post-Coronavirus & EU Reaction to Defunding WHO | Europe In :60 | GZERO Media

Is coronavirus under control in Europe?

Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, provides his perspective:

Will countries like Italy and Spain now, and others in Europe now, gradually open up?

It's got to be very, very gradual. And it's going to be different in different European countries, although there's an attempt to sort of coordinate somewhat from the European Union point of view. What you've seen in Italy, to take the worst hit country, is opening up a couple of shops, some bookstores and some shops for children's clothes, in addition to pharmacies and food stores. But I think most restrictions will be fairly firmly in place in most of Europe for weeks to come.

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