Thread by @HillelNeuer

1/5: You may be asking why it is that out of nine WHO "Goodwill Ambassadors," one happens to be Major General Peng Liyuan, the wife of China's dictator Xi Jinping, who at this time 31 years ago was singing "The Most Beloved People" to the Tiananmen Square Massacre perpetrators.

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1268641011934298114

2/5: You may be asking why it is that out of nine WHO "Goodwill Ambassadors," another happens to be China TV's James Chau, a London-born graduate of Cambridge University who sold his soul to the Chinese Communist Party, using his WHO position to spread propaganda for Beijing.

3/5: To understand what happened, remember that in 2003, then WHO chief Gro Brundtland slammed China big time for hiding the SARS outbreak. nytimes.com/2003/04/07/int…

So China came up with a brilliant plan....

4/5: Three years later: "Chinese Candidate Margaret Chan is elected as Director-General of the WHO. It is the first time a Chinese candidate is elected as chief of a UN agency. China attached great importance and extended full support to Chan's candidacy." margaretchan.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/

5/5: Culture of corruption:

🇨🇳 2011: Chan names Peng Liyuan as WHO Goodwill Ambassador—but omits that she's the wife of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
who.int/goodwill_ambas…

🇨🇳 2016: Chan names China TV propagandist James Chau as WHO Goodwill Ambassador. who.int/goodwill_ambas…

6/ In 2016, Margaret Chan blocked Taiwan from the WHO's annual forum, saying it violated the “one China” principle. As a reward for all of this, Chan was appointed to the Chinese Communist Party's top advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

7/ When Ethiopia's former minister @DrTedros was elected to replace Chan in 2017, he saw no reason not to follow her example and exploit the WHO's name, and so he quickly named ally Robert Mugabe, then dictator of Zimbabwe, as "Goodwill Ambassador."

But we made him cancel that: