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China already has a WHO alternative -- of sorts.
It's called the Health Silk Road, it's part of China's Belt & Road Initiative, and guess who gave a big speech hailing its launch in 2017?
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of course. https://www.axios.com/china-world-health-organization-health-silk-road-95e68fe5-1e12-40f7-9644-c39128e28415.html
It's called the Health Silk Road, it's part of China's Belt & Road Initiative, and guess who gave a big speech hailing its launch in 2017?
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of course. https://www.axios.com/china-world-health-organization-health-silk-road-95e68fe5-1e12-40f7-9644-c39128e28415.html
"President Xi’s proposal for a Health Silk Road, which strengthens and renews ancient links between cultures and people, with health at its core, is indeed visionary," said Ghebreyesus at the the Belt and Road Forum for Health Cooperation in August 2017.
The BRI, and its affiliated Health Silk Road, are both a rhetorical and an organizational means of defining the economic and geopolitical relationship between China and other countries as that of magnanimous leader and grateful followers.
The Health Silk Road "is the clearest example of the fact that BRI is not about infrastructure construction, but a broader effort to redraw the world according to Beijing’s preferred design," said @RollandNadege, a senior fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
