How China has been seizing control at the UN and WHO

Geoff Ward
4 min readFeb 22, 2024

China indirectly controls the World Health Organisation with the discreet help of ‘friendly’ states in emerging countries to whom it pays money in exchange for their votes, claims veteran French journalist Pierre-Antoine Donnet, author of a new book, China, the Super Predator: A Challenge for the Planet, out this month (February, 2024).

Donnet, a former Beijing correspondent who speaks Mandarin, told me: ‘The WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been elected with the active support of China and its allies and friends. In return, he first closed his eyes on the origin of the covid-19 virus before becoming more vocal and criticising China’s opacity on the matter.’

The WHO is currently embroiled in controversy over its proposed ‘pandemic treaty’ and amendments to the International Health Regulations which, critics insist, will encroach on the sovereignty of member countries, reduce the individual’s right to decide on health, curb freedom of speech, and, with an ability to declare a pandemic, impose controls on travel, communication, assembly and the workplace. See my recent article ‘Call for Ireland’s UN team to reject WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’’).

China’s steady infiltration of UN affairs is one of many startling scenarios revealed in Donnet’s book which warns of the communist regime’s bid…

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Geoff Ward

Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).