Beijing would become the undisputed champion of global health if it chose to close the funding gap caused by the looming US withdrawal

China’s Foreign Ministry criticized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and the World Health Organization, offering an initial look at how Beijing intends to present itself as a force for stability in global affairs during the new administration.

China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements -- the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accord -- after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed ties with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as the two face a more geopolitically assertive US government led by Donald Trump, who criticised the Kremlin's war against Ukraine on the first day of his second term as president.

President Trump stopped short of setting down fresh tariffs on China in his first hours in office, but he cited Beijing in signing several of his executive orders, including decisions to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization,

The move sets a 12-month notice period for the U.S. to leave the United Nations health agency and stop all financial contributions to its work.

The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the WHO, and the pact to tax large multinationals adds to the president’s expansionist rhetoric and his conviction that ‘everybody needs’ the United States

Describing the Russia-Ukraine and Middle Eastern conflicts as “Biden Wars,” as viewed by US President Trump, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton emphasised Trump’s stance on these conflicts,

Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions he's issued on his first day back in the White House to initiate the withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization. Many scientists fear could roll back decades-long gains in fighting diseases like AIDS,

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In addition to immediately clamping down on immigration across the southern border, Mr. Trump signed executive orders to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement.