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Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

Beijing has promised to continue supporting the World Health Organization even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US.

The Show Me State vows to seize $25 billion in Chinese assets if Beijing doesn't pay damages related to the outbreak of COVID-19.

China’s Foreign Ministry criticized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, offering an initial look at how Beijing intends to present itself as a force for stability in global affairs during the new administration.

Beijing would become the undisputed champion of global health if it chose to close the funding gap caused by the looming US withdrawal

The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said ... WHO vigorously denies the allegation and says it continues to press Beijing to share data to determine whether COVID emerged from human contact ...

President Trump stopped short of setting down fresh tariffs on China in his first hours in office, but he cited Beijing in signing several of his executive orders, including decisions to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization,

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

Trump had started the process of leaving the World Health Organization in his first term but was not able to complete it.

The top US diplomat said President Donald Trump’s proposal to buy Greenland “is not a joke” because of the risk that China would station resources on the island that threaten American security and the importance of Arctic shipping lanes for energy exports.