Based on a Sankei Shimbun editorial, this article criticizes WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for his claim that Taiwan subjected him to racist attacks, examining WHO’s pro-China stance, Taiwan’s exclusion, and the loss of neutrality expected of an international organization.

2020-04-12
The following is from an editorial published yesterday in the Sankei Shimbun under the title, “WHO’s Tedros Is Unfit to Serve as Director-General.”
It contains the details of what a friend told me yesterday after watching NHK News.
There are people who merely subscribe to the Asahi Shimbun and watch foolish television variety news shows.
They are what are commonly called the information-poor.
Yet, precisely because they are foolish, they do not even realize that they themselves are information-poor.
They do not even possess the ability to judge whether the Asahi Shimbun or television variety news shows are reporting the facts.
And yet it is always people like this who say the same things.
The government’s response is too slow.
The government is always behind the curve.
And so on.
If any readers of this column have such people around them, they should tell them this.
If you want to say that the response is too slow, or that everything is behind the curve, then say it to the WHO.
Say it to Tedros.
Say it to the United Nations.
Say it to the Asahi Shimbun and to the political operatives of the opposition parties.
He was, after all, not a man capable of bearing the grave responsibility of leading the World Health Organization, the WHO.
I am referring to Director-General Tedros.
At a press conference on the 8th, Tedros claimed that he had been subjected to “insults including racist abuse” from Taiwan for three months, and accused Taiwan’s foreign minister, the equivalent of a foreign minister, of being involved.
He did not mention any specific content of the alleged insults.
This was an extremely inexplicable statement and action, and it was only natural that Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen declared a “strong protest,” stating that the accusation was baseless, and demanded an apology.
It is Tedros whose response to the grave crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in Wuhan, China, has been consistently behind the curve.
It is also the same man who continues to exclude Taiwan, a country of 23 million people that has been preventing the spread of the new virus, from the WHO.
And yet, does he now play the victim by using a non-existent “discrimination” as a pretext?
President Tsai responded, “Taiwan has long been excluded from international organizations and knows better than anyone what isolation and discrimination are, and Taiwan opposes all forms of discrimination.”
Tedros, who is from Ethiopia, a country that has received large amounts of economic assistance from China, has repeatedly praised China’s response to the new virus, a response that is by no means worthy of praise, and has repeatedly made remarks and taken actions that appear to follow the intentions of the Xi Jinping regime.
With his inexplicable accusation against Taiwan, Tedros’s political bias has become even clearer.
The neutrality required of the director-general of an international organization has been lost.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian defended Tedros, saying that China “strongly condemns personal attacks and racist remarks and actions against Dr. Tedros.”
He then stated that Taiwan’s purpose in seeking participation in the WHO was “independence,” and said that China was firmly opposed to it.
The bottomless evil and plausible lies of the Chinese Communist Party’s dictatorial regime have reached their extreme.
They are the ugliest human beings in the history of mankind.
U.S. President Trump criticized the WHO, saying that it was “China-centric.”
In response, Tedros argued, “If you don’t want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it,” and showed not even the slightest sign of reflection.
In the midst of a grave crisis such as a pandemic, it is not ordinarily desirable to dismiss the director-general of the WHO.
But Tedros’s words and actions are far too biased.
Japan must work in coordination with the United States toward reforming the WHO, including the dismissal of its director-general.