The U.S. always seems to be in competition with China—economically, technologically, militarily. But how do the two countries stack up when it comes to measuring the health of its people? Going by what we know about China's approach to aging—revering and caring for their elderly population,

President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.

The World Health Organization said in January 2025 that China's reported levels of acute respiratory infections, including those caused by the flu-like virus HMPV, were "within the expected range" for winter.

As part of his blitz of executive orders, President Trump delivered on a promise to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization. The Trump White House accuses the WHO of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic and bias toward China.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

The U.S. has traditionally been the most generous benefactor of the WHO. A Trump executive order to cut ties with the WHO could pose a threat to global public health.

President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United Nations’ public health agency and drawing criticism from public health experts.

These diseases had once been extraordinary rarities. When HIV hit, they were everywhere. I remember how I blew up gloves into balloons to distract the kids, so small and polite, their hair neatly braided. I remember how they died.

"Such a lawsuit is nothing short of frivolous litigation that defies the basic theory of the law and sovereign equality," Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Newsweek when asked how China would react to a ruling in the state's favor.

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