Trump froze funding for the WHO, but he’s fine with giving taxpayer money to McKinsey — a firm with close ties to China’s government — to help his coronavirus response
of McKinsey Greater China’s website said 30 percent of its clients were state-owned enterprises that operated in sectors “ranging from oil and gas, to technology and telecommunications, to banking and insurance.
, a hugely ambitious infrastructure project that would expand the country’s footprint across multiple continents and assert its place as a global economic power. Thethat McKinsey’s internal research firm churned out reports in favor of the Belt and Road Initiative that were covered in Chinese state-owned media. Nine of the 20 biggest contractors working on Belt-and-Road, thehad been at one point McKinsey clients.
But Bush and Obama committed to maintain U.S. funding for the World Health Organization during their presidencies. Neither threatened to zero out funding for the WHO as Trump has now done, nor singled out China for blame in the middle of a historic pandemic. A White House spokesman did not respond to questions about McKinsey’s contacts and whether the administration would continue to rely on McKinsey’s help to respond to the pandemic given the firm’s deep ties to China. The spokesman only sent this statement: “The only McKinsey personnel we are aware of are a handful of volunteers at FEMA and the Department of Health and Human Services, none of whom are members of Jared Kushner’s team.
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