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📰 Biden Charts Course for New Administration
President-elect’s transition team reviews series of executive orders that could reverse Trump administration policies
📌 這篇文章關於拜登成爲美國總統當選人(President-elect),標題說他為新政府當局 (new administration)謀劃路線(chart course),副標題提述過渡小組 (transition team) 正在回顧現任總統川普的行政命令(executive order)。
WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden forged ahead with his transition to the White House, charting a course for significant policy changes even as President Trump declined to concede the race.
📌 這一段說當川普總統婉拒 (decline) 承認落敗 (concede the race),拜登穩步前進 (forge ahead) 處理過渡事宜,涉及重大政策改變(significant policy changes)。
A day after the Associated Press declared the 77-year-old Democratic former vice president had garnered enough electoral college votes to win the presidency, Mr. Biden’s transition team was weighing who would fill senior roles in the White House and across the government, according to people familiar with the matter.
📌 美聯社 (the Associated Press) 宣佈拜登當選後的一天,他的過渡小組考慮 (weigh) 填補白宮 (the White House) 以及政府各處的高級角色 (senior roles)。
It also was discussing executive orders that would reverse some of the Republican incumbent’s signature policy initiatives, including his decision to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement, the people said.
📌 川普總統有關離開巴黎氣候變化協議 (the Paris climate-change agreement) 或許會被逆轉 (reverse)。
A transition spokesman said no decision had been made on which executive orders to pursue, but added, “He has the same levers at his disposal as all of his predecessors to address the crises facing the American people.”
📌過渡發言人說,拜登擁有前任總統的權力處理美國人面對的危機。
The Saturday announcement of Mr. Biden’s win capped an extraordinary week in which both campaigns, and the nation as a whole, awaited projections on a vote count that took longer than expected because of the widespread use of mail-in voting due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The AP’s tally of votes remains preliminary until certified by individual states, and several states have yet to be called. The Electoral College votes in December, and the final results are announced in Congress in January.
📌 郵遞投票 (mail-in voting) 令宣佈誰贏得大選需要更長的時間 (take longer than expected),美聯社的票數仍然是初步的 (preliminary),有待個別州份確認。
Mr. Trump’s campaign has filed lawsuits to contest the vote-counting process in several states, though it was unclear whether any, if successful, would meaningfully change a state’s results.
The Trump campaign announced Sunday that Rep. Doug Collins (R., Ga.), who ran for Senate but failed to advance to a runoff election, would lead its efforts to secure a recount in Georgia. Mr. Biden currently leads in the state by 0.21%, according to the AP, and state law requires an automatic recount if the margin is 0.5% or less.
Mr. Trump’s advisers are putting together a team of lawyers focused on key states, and they have diverted nearly 100 staffers to Georgia alone, according to a person familiar with the matter, many from the successful Florida effort.
📌川普陣營提出法律訴訟 (file lawsuits),質疑幾個州的點票過程,他們也調配人員去關鍵州 (key states)。
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World Health Coronavirus Disinformation
By The Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal
April 5, 2020 5:28 pm ET
//The coronavirus pandemic will offer many lessons in what to do better to save more lives and do less economic harm the next time. But there's already one way to ensure future pandemics are less deadly: Reform or defund the World Health Organization (WHO).
Last week Florida Senator Rick Scott called for a Congressional investigation into the United Nations agency's "role in helping Communist China cover up information regarding the threat of the Coronavirus." The rot at WHO goes beyond canoodling with Beijing, but that's a good place to start.
The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China, sometime in the autumn, perhaps as early as November. It accelerated in December. Caixin Global reported that Chinese labs had sequenced the coronavirus genome by the end of December but were ordered by Chinese officials to destroy samples and not publish their findings. On Dec. 30 Dr. Li Wenliang warned Chinese doctors about the virus, and several days later local authorities accused him of lies that "severely disturbed the social order."
Taiwanese officials warned WHO on Dec. 31 that they had seen evidence that the virus could be transmitted human-to-human. But the agency, bowing to Beijing, doesn't have a normal relationship with Taiwan. On Jan. 14 WHO tweeted, "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission." The agency took another week to reverse that misinformation.
On Jan. 22-23 a WHO emergency committee debated whether to declare Covid-19 a "public health emergency of international concern." The virus already had spread to several countries, and making such a declaration would have better prepared the world. It should have been an easy decision, despite Beijing's objections. Yet director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus declined and instead traveled to China.
He finally made the declaration on Jan. 30—losing a week of precious time—and his rhetoric suggests the trip to Beijing was more about politics than public health. "The Chinese government is to be congratulated for the extraordinary measures it has taken," he said. "I left in absolutely no doubt about China's commitment to transparency."
A University of Southampton study suggests the number of coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95% had China moved to contain the virus three weeks sooner. Yet Dr. Tedros gushed that Beijing had set "a new standard for outbreak response." He also praised the speed with which China "sequenced the genome and shared it with WHO and the world." China didn't do so until Jan. 12.
On Jan. 30 Dr. Tedros also said that "WHO doesn't recommend limiting trade and movement." President Trump ignored the advice and announced travel restrictions on China the following day, slowing the spread of the virus. U.S. progressive elites echoed WHO and criticized Mr. Trump. WHO didn't declare the coronavirus a pandemic until March 11.
Not that any of this has prompted much soul-searching. Alluding to China, WHO official Michael Ryan said last week, "We need to be very careful also to not to be profiling certain parts of the world as being uncooperative." Beijing touted the remarks, as it has other WHO statements.
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This record is tragic but not surprising. Much of the blame for WHO's failures lies with Dr. Tedros, who is a politician, not a medical doctor. As a member of the left-wing Tigray People's Liberation Front, he rose through Ethiopia's autocratic government as health and foreign minister. After taking the director-general job in 2017, he tried to install Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe as a WHO goodwill ambassador.
China inevitably gains more international clout as its economy grows. But why does WHO seem so much more afraid of Beijing's ire than Washington's? Only 12% of WHO's assessed member-state contributions come from China. The U.S. contributes 22%. Americans at WHO generally are loyal to the institution, while Chinese appointees put Chinese interests first or they will suffer Beijing's wrath.
China's influence over WHO has been organized and consistent, whereas the U.S. response has been haphazard. Washington needs a quarterback to lead the fight against Chinese dominance at WHO and other international organizations. Yet the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs lacks a political appointee.
The U.S. will have allies in an effort to reform WHO. A frustrated Japanese deputy prime minister called WHO the "Chinese Health Organization." British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly is rethinking U.K.-China ties over China's lack of candor about the virus.
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Congress should investigate how WHO performed against the coronavirus and whether its judgments were corrupted by China's political influence. Of all international institutions, WHO should be the least political. Its core mission is to coordinate international efforts against epidemics and provide honest public-health guidance.
If WHO is merely a politicized Maginot Line against pandemics, then it is worse than useless and should receive no more U.S. funding. And if foreign-policy elites want to know why so many Americans mistrust international institutions, WHO is it.//
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