House Oversight Committee Members Press WHO on Role in Spreading Beijing’s Propaganda

World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom (L) shakes hands with Chinese regime leader Xi jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 28, 2020. Naohiko Hatta/AFP via Getty Images

Several Republican members of the House Oversight Committee are requesting that the World Health Organization (WHO) hand over information about its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the wake of Beijing’s widely criticized, botched handling of the CCP virus pandemic.

In an April 9 letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the U.S. lawmakers laid out concerns that the international organization helped to serve Beijing’s interests over those of other countries by repeating the Chinese regime’s lies about the situation and downplaying the severity of the disease.