Taiwan Rejects WHO Claim of Racist Campaign Against Tedros
- Health chief blames Taipei for ‘racial slurs’ against him
- Fresh volley in dispute over body’s exclusion of Taiwan
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Taiwan hit back at the head of the World Health Organization as a dispute over the self-ruled island’s exclusion from the body threatened to overshadow efforts to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry demanded an apology for what it called unnecessary and slanderous comments from WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros, who is Ethiopian, had earlier accused Taiwan of being behind a racist campaign against him and Africans in general.