As the pandemic continues to crumble countries on a global scale, the World Health Organization is still hard at work to learn more about the ongoing spread of COVID-19 and figure out where the root of the virus stemmed from. With this being said, China is making the investigation quite difficult by providing very vague information. This made for very heated exchanges between the organization members and China’s leadership since all the WHO desires is concrete and detailed answers. With this being said, I find it interesting that leadership from the WHO’s motive is to try to find out what and who they could point the finger at and place the blame on for the pandemic. Because of all lives lost paired with the economic struggle that this pandemic has caused, convicting someone or something would give the opportunity for justice. This is why I feel that China is being as vague as possible when reporting to the WHO about the root of the pandemic. They are terrified of being the country that is legitimately responsible because they may ultimately have to pay the price for the pandemic financially or through losing their reputation of being a rising power in the eyes of other world leaders. Because this is on a global scale rather than an issue confined to a single nation, China has the opportunity and leverage to beat around the bush in regards to giving world powers information while if this were a crime committed by a citizen within a governing nation, they would be thoroughly investigated for their wrongdoing because of their citizenship to the country in which they reside in.
Kaytlyn Tyler Blog Post #2
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-refuses-to-give-who-raw-data-on-early-covid-19-cases-11613150580
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