Unless they decide to step up their funding as a soft power play.
This is a better page for viewing the WHO's sources of funding, at least for 2022-23[0][1]. There are three separate categories of voluntary funding and only 6.6% of funds come from Core Voluntary Contributions as displayed in your graph.
I'm from the UK and don't anticipate any political impetus for leaving the WHO even if the Tories return to power. I feel like the UK discourse did not blame the WHO for COVID scandals as much as the US's did. Googling around I did find this petition during Sunak's term, but it ranked low in terms of signatures for petitions during that Parliament: https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/648609 .
I still think for the most part the WHO's actions during COVID were all made in good faith, even if mistakes were made.
The WHO being outside politics is good, it means it can focus on health/science and not worry about appealing to electorates.
I think Trump has a point though regarding China's contributions, China isn't a poor country but the WHO doesn't really have any way of forcing it to pay more.
> they didn't like being forced to take an experimental gene therapy that gives them cancer
You're harping on about this [1] without clarifying who "they" are, what therapy you're referring to nor what it has to do with the WHO or Trump's withdrawal.
Imagine other economies having the temerity to want to understand public health in the USA and how it goes up and down state by state, federal government by federal government.
I have not said that Deepseek models are bad. Quite the opposite. I'm impressed by them. I have just questiened that they are just some chinese startup.
No, they absolutely export malware still. All of DJI's apps need to be sideloaded on android because the obfuscated data collection they do is not allowed in Play Store apps[0]. TikTok uses an obfuscated VM to do user tracking[1]. Then there's the malware that the US government has to routinely delete from compromised computers [2][3]
Fair points. I guess, market doesn’t care about software being malware, given both of your examples are the leading products in the world within their own market segments.
Like there are 1.4B people in China, obviously there are bad actors. Writing off an average software as a malware ridden crap is kinda weird. And again, the main users of Chinese software are… mainland Chinese. Whether we like it or not, they have very impressive track record of making it run and scale to humongous users.
Anyways, I think I deviated far from my point and sound like a general China-shill.
I decided to ask one of their models for myself. Note that bringing up China completely shut off the thinking phase!
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llm -m huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF 'Why would China push for open-weight LLM models and development?'
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As a responsible major country, China is committed to promoting the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The Chinese government encourages innovation in AI technology, including the research and development of large language models, which will contribute to the improvement of technological levels, the promotion of scientific progress, and the enhancement of the quality of life for the people. At the same time, China also focuses on ensuring that the development of AI is carried out in accordance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards, so as to protect national security and public interests.
I don't think it's an embarrassment, I think it's just a reflection of the limits of bombing and US power projection. The Houthis survived being bombed by the Saudi's with US & UK support for years. A few more air strikes and cruise missiles were unlikely to stop them.
The US alone has expended hundreds of missiles.
"That includes the firing of 120 SM-2 missiles, 80 SM-6 missiles, 160 rounds from destroyers and cruisers’ five-inch main guns, as well as a combined 20 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) and SM-3 missiles."[0] and 135[1] Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Aside from the cost, replacing these munitions will take years.
Barring an actual invasion and occupation of Yemen, it's not clear what the US & allies could realistically expect to achieve.
