An unnamed World Health Organization (W.H.O.) spokesperson insisted in remarks published on Thursday that the agency is not seeking to change its current, meager relationship with Taiwan after a senior Japanese government official claimed this week that W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus promised more cooperation with Taipei.

Japanese Minister of Finance Katayama Satsuki met with Tedros during a visit to Japan for the W.H.O. director-general this week and published photos alongside him and other public health leaders and representatives of the World Bank. In remarks shared on the social media site Twitter, Katayama stated, among other policy claims, that Tedros had “explicitly state[d] strengthening relations with Taiwan!”

The social media post did not elaborate on that statement bu

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