India, Jan. 22 -- The US has quit the World Health Organization (WHO) on the grounds that the premier global health body mishandled the Covid-19 pandemic, failed to reform, and wasn't independent of the "political influence" of certain member states, a hint at China.
Trump has also halted all US foreign aid for a period of 90 days to study its efficacy and consistency with US foreign policy. In the order making the decision, Trump slammed the US "foreign aid industry and bureaucracy" for not being "aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values". The order alleged that US foreign aid had served to "destabilise world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and ...