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[https://www.csis.org/analysis/usaid-cuts-weaken-us-influence-united-nations by Allison Lombardo 19/5/25 CSIS] | [https://www.csis.org/analysis/usaid-cuts-weaken-us-influence-united-nations by Allison Lombardo 19/5/25 CSIS] | ||
As part of its stated intention to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and circumscribe U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration announced recently that it had terminated at least 5,341 foreign aid projects, including an estimated 211 awards to various UN agencies for implementing development and humanitarian programs around the world. Some U.S. leverage may go with them. | As part of its stated intention to dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and circumscribe U.S. foreign assistance, the Trump administration announced recently that it had terminated at least 5,341 foreign aid projects, including an estimated 211 awards to various UN agencies for implementing development and humanitarian programs around the world. Some U.S. leverage may go with them. | ||
=====US aid cuts are a soft power surrender to China===== | |||
[https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/us-aid-cuts-are-soft-power-surrender-china by theinterpreter] | |||
China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval underway. It shows that the aid cuts will restore China as the world’s largest bilateral development partner, with the United States ceding larger partner status to China in more than 40 countries. | |||
