Archive for December 15th, 2025

Foreign Aid With Chinese Characteristics: Where Beijing Is—and Isn’t—Seeking Influence

Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that China would step in to fill the geopolitical vacuum. USAID, after all, had served as a key tool of U.S. diplomacy for more than six decades, and the American retreat has created […]

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