The World Bows To Commies With new Variant Name

Written By BlabberBuzz | Sunday, 28 November 2021 09:45 PM
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The World Bows To Commies With new Variant Name

The relationship between China and the World Health Organisation has come under renewed scrutiny after the UN body seemed to skip over the Greek letter 'Xi' and instead opted to call the new Covid variant 'Omicron'.

Last night the WHO sparked criticism from China hawks after it named the mutation 'Omicron' instead of 'Nu' or 'Xi'.

The UN body has been using the Greek letters 'Alpha', 'Beta' and 'Delta' to describe the variants, insisting on its website it would 'be easier and more practical to be discussed by non-scientific audiences'.

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However, its decision to name the variant from southern Africa 'Omicron' has sparked speculation that the WHO deliberately skipped over 'Xi' to avoid angering the President of China, Xi Jinping.

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President Xi is alleged to have significant influence over WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former Ethiopian minister whose country has been a significant recipient of Chinese investment.

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Tedros has been accused of using his role to make further appointments that were preferable to Beijing, including making Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador.

The Chinese government has been accused of using an 'aggressive' influence campaign on the WHO's response to the initial Covid outbreak leading to a missed chance to stop the pandemic. It is also alleged that the UN body's independence was eroded prior to the global spread of the virus in early 2020.

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Donald Trump Jr tweeted: "As far as I'm concerned the original will always be the Xi variant."

Republican Senator Ted Cruz retweeted a Telegraph editor who cited a WHO source asserting that Xi was skipped to 'avoid stigmatizing a region'.

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"If the WHO is this scared of the Chinese Communist Party, how can they be trusted to call them out next time they're trying to cover up a catastrophic global pandemic?" Cruz questioned.

Wall Street Journal columnist Ben Zimmer suggested: "Kudos to the WHO for skipping over the potentially confusing Nu and Xi names and going straight to Omicron."

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A WHO spokesman told The New York Post that it avoided 'Nu' because it feared "people would think it was the new variant, rather than a name".

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They went on to note: 'And Xi because it's a common surname and we have agreed [to] naming rules that avoid using place names, people's names, animal, etc. to avoid stigma.'

Earlier this year, an investigation by The Sunday Times revealed efforts by Beijing to control the WHO's decision-making, sabotage investigations, and even install officials.

The newspaper claims the WHO failed to publicly challenge Chinese misinformation, delayed declaring an international emergency, and discouraged governments from placing travel bans on China to protect its economy.

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