This essay examines the U.S. move to review and suspend funding to the WHO amid growing distrust of the organization’s China-leaning response to the coronavirus crisis. Based on Sankei Shimbun’s report on the Trump administration’s proposed corrective measures, including funding suspension, stricter review of contributions, and consideration of a new international body, it criticizes NHK’s Watch 9 and its presenters’ response.

April 15, 2020
According to the American political newspaper Politico, the measures are expected to be “punitive” in nature, including the suspension of contributions, stricter screening when contributions are made, and consideration of establishing an international organization to replace the WHO.
Those who were watching NHK’s Watch 9 today, April 15, must surely have become convinced that the caster Arima was standing in a position that looked unmistakably like that of a spokesman for the Chinese side.
His comment on the United States’ decision to suspend funding to the WHO, a decision that did not go beyond the obvious, made it perfectly clear that he was thinking as if he were an agent of China.
Not only he, but also the newly appointed caster Wakuda, exposed herself as a person no different from a broadcast geisha, at a level that makes one wonder what on earth she learned at the University of Tokyo.
The people who control NHK’s news division are without doubt people who are extremely vulnerable to Chinese influence, or who are trapped in a China-leaning perception.
To use the words of President Trump, whom they hate, they are narrators of fake news.
The following is from an article in Sankei Shimbun dated April 12.
U.S. to announce review of WHO contributions.
Considering establishment of a new organization.
Washington, Yoshinari Kurose.
At a press conference on the 10th, U.S. President Donald Trump said that, in connection with his criticism that the WHO has taken a “China-leaning” response to the new coronavirus, he would announce corrective measures next week, including a review of contributions.
Mr. Trump did not reveal the details, but according to the American political newspaper Politico, the measures are expected to be “punitive” in nature, including the suspension of contributions, stricter screening when contributions are made, and consideration of establishing an international organization to replace the WHO.
Mr. Trump criticized the WHO, saying, “The WHO keeps accepting China’s claims.”