The US is the biggest financial contributor to the WHO, last year forking out $US553 million ($877 million) to its $US6 billion budget. Australia is set to give $5.3 million in membership dues this year, on top of voluntary contributions, while China will give about $28.7 million. Trump's decision to halt funding will play right into the hands of Beijing, which wants to model itself as a global health leader in the wake of the pandemic
So China contributes 0.5% to the WHO’s budget but secretly controls it over the country who puts 15% in?
For more than a decade, China has been quietly gaining more influence over UN bodies. Four of the 15 UN specialised agencies are headed by Chinese nationals. China now contributes 12 per cent of the UN's regular budget, the second-largest monetary contributor after the US.
So China, which is about 18% of the world’s population, heads up 25% of UN agencies and contributes 12% of the budget? Seems about right. If the China conspiracy theorists want to make up a good conspiracy make sure it makes sense.
They have more right to control more bodies than the country that constitutes 4% of the world’s population. America, at the most conservative estimate has bombed at least 30 countries all over the world since WW2. China’s only been involved in one major conflict they didn’t start on their doorstep (Korea) and some minor skirmishes with India and Vietnam that lasted days. China is exerting influence via airport, seaport, road, railway, school and hospital construction equipment, the US does it via a B-52 and a Predator drone. China has supplied Australia with medical equipment, the US is hoarding their own. So to answer this question:
Cut to the chase, you're told you have to live the rest of your life in China or the USA.
Which would you choose??
I would probably choose Coastal Southern California over Beijing but some of the small cities in the interior around Yuannan and Sichuan Province over the American South. I would live in Shanghai before any US city. I’ve travelled around both relatively undisturbed, however I saw far more police present cuffing people and checking IDs in the US than China. I can walk around most streets in China at any time of day without fear whereas most US street are deserted at night. I can drink a beer in peace at a street bar into the wee hours of the morning far more easily in China than the US with the added bonus of not worrying about some redneck exercising their “Second Amendment Rights”. I’d only really move to either for work and packages for expats are better in China than the US slave to the wage healthcare for profit system.
So if it was a choice between the two for life? China, for the deciding factor that the average Chinese gal is better looking and classier than the typical US single gal.