White House trade adviser Peter Navarro claimed that China was “very aggressively” trying to “gain control” of agencies of the United Nations.
Navarro joined Fox News’s Martha MacCallum on her show Wednesday night to discuss China, its role in the coronavirus outbreak, and the communist country’s relationship with agencies such as the World Health Organization.
“Martha, let me — let me give you a kind of bigger look at the chessboard here because the U.N. itself has 15 specialized agencies including the WHO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, things like that,” Navarro said.
“And what China has been doing very, very aggressively over the last decade is to try to gain control of those by electing people to the top,” he continued. “It already controls five of the 15. And also by using proxies, colonial-type proxies like Tedros [Adhanom Ghebreyesus], at the WHO.”
Navarro added: “And as you can see in this crisis, the damage that that kind of control by China, the key health organization, has been just absolutely enormous. They suppressed the human-to-human transmission. They refused to call this a pandemic. They basically discouraged travel bans. So I mean, this is one of the most serious things we’ve ever seen.”
Navarro added that President Trump was considering cutting U.S. funding to the WHO after the president accused the organization of mishandling the outbreak.
“It all tracks to China’s view of the world and how they want to control different types of international organizations, even as they don’t play by the international rules. So it’s going to be up to the president to look at this,” he said. “All I can keep telling you is that China’s attempt to control basically every organization within the United Nations through their colonial powers, through bribery, through other things, [has caused] tremendous damage to this country and to this world.”
