{"id":158532,"date":"2026-10-08T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158532"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:51:02","slug":"china-nominates-song-li-for-who-chief-as-agency-faces-funding-shake-up-from-us-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158532","title":{"rendered":"China nominates Song Li for WHO chief as agency faces funding shake-up from US exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has nominated health official Song Li to run for director general of the World Health Organization, the foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday.<br \/>\nIf elected, Song would be the first person from mainland China to head the United Nations health agency.<br \/>\nChina previously backed Margaret Chan, a Hong Kong-born doctor and former director of health of Hong Kong, who served as WHO director general from 2007 to 2017.<br \/>\nSong\u2019s nomination comes as the WHO faces a major funding shake-up following the US&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3370214\/china-nominates-song-li-who-chief-agency-faces-funding-shake-us-exit?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has nominated health official Song Li to run for director general of the World Health Organization, the foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday. If&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}