[smooth_remmy]

You naively think that western governments are immune from being influenced by China.

You're wrong. Governmental institutions like the WHO have been influenced by China. The German government has been influenced: they have been reluctant to criticize China.

There is no magical governmental institution that is immune from this. If the president was a Democrat we'd be in this same situation.

[pm90]

I never said Western Governments are immune to influence from China. They are not. They do have the power to resist that influence with competent leadership, which in the past two decades has only been provided by Democratic administrations.