> Any attempt to acknowledge and answer the question, even in deflecting it, was going to cause more trouble. This is certainly not true. WHO lawyer gave later

> Any attempt to acknowledge and answer the question, even in deflecting it, was going to cause more trouble. This is certainly not true. WHO lawyer gave later lengthy explanation of WHO position on Taiwan on a press conference and nobody cared. It wasn't the issue of Taiwan that shocked people. Everyone following news knows that UN is politically paralyzed institution. What was shocking, to me and people I know, was the extend of fear and disingenuity of a member of WHO. He has clearly western roots and we expect from him western political culture. He is the man in authority position who we are supposed to trust. But this behavior was all but trustworthy. He was deceiving. He was laying and he was voluntarily following Chinese party line. The reporter was not stupid, indeed. It's her job to ask difficult questions. I applaud her for opening my eyes to the fact that I should trust WHO only about us much as I trust China. > Look at Hong Kong. Most countries are doing nothing except making vague statements for peace, at most some are offering refuge for some who want to escape. Again, this is something that I tend to expect. Western states have nothing to gain there and we have no obligations to these 7.5 million people. > It shows how much power China has in general. I guess maybe I was naive, but my a prior would be that USA would have a lot more power. The fact that western people are bowing before China in this way is new to me.