Could the weakening of US aid efforts, due to USAID's potential dissolution, lead to CN becoming the dominant global soft power?

USAID promoted democracy, contained disease outbreaks, saved lives... Trump: sabotaged it. #USAID was a source of foreign asst for struggling Cs, playing a leading role in response to INTL emergencies...

In 2024, USAIDpurchased ~$2B worth of US -grown crops for its INTL food aid programs, supporting American farmers & food processors.
#USPol https://www.devex.com/news/devex-newswire-china-goes-big-on-small-and-beautiful-109782

GAAA!

Via Anna Bower:

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if #USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

"The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception.

This policy change has attracted little attention amid the wholesale dismantling of American foreign aid, but it stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase in poverty."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/health/usaid-contraception-cuts.html

#EdiciónImpresa | Para los Estados Unidos, claro está, la clasificación se reduce a dos: los gobiernos que “cooperan” y los que no. Siempre habrá la posibilidad de intervenir, atendiendo a la conveniencia, en nombre de los derechos humanos (un valor universal).

https://www.desdeabajo.info/ediciones/edicion-no-322/item/el-venenoso-encanto-de-la-usaid.html

Via News Eye:

Bad enough that #Trump dismantled #USAID & crippled the support that would have been sent to #Myanmar after its earthquake.

His administration has just slapped a 44% tariff on Myanmar.

Depraved.

vidéo en Démantèlement de l'USAID : impacts sur le système humanitaire mondial. Avec Olivier Routeau: -- JEkDoF-5zPM?version=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEkDoF-5zPM&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #USAID #Démantèlement #Humanitaire #ImpactsMondiaux #SystèmeHumanitaire

https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-wisconsin

Fact-checkers face intimidation in Eastern Europe as USAID cuts embolden authoritarian tactics https://www.byteseu.com/886833/ #CenterForResearch #Europe #FactChecking #IFCN #InternationalFactCheckingDay #InternationalFactCheckingNetwork #Istinomer #PresidentDonaldTrump #Serbia #TransparencyAndAccountability #usaid

Is de verkiezing van Susan Crawford een eerste kleine stap terug in de goede richting? Ze moeten snel zijn in Amerika. Met de ontmanteling van USAID komt het leven van miljoenen mensen in gevaar.

Veel lof voor het statement van Cory Booker. Jammer dat ongeveer 25 uren niet voldoende waren om samen te vatten wat het Trumpl/Muskl-beleid op slecht 71 dagen al naar de kl*ten heeft geholpen.

To Anyone Questioning The Value Of Programs Like #USAID:

It costs pennies to make friends

You give medicine and help to people they are less likely to start a war with neighbors looking for food and resources. They are less likely to spread disease to the world

AND IMPORTANTLY:

When wackjob islamic terrorist comes to town saying the infidel Americans need to be killed that kid is going to say "Bullsh!t, when I was a kid it was the Americans who gave me medicine and help!"

Pennies

Maternal and baby deaths are skyrocketing in #Afghanistan, as clinics close without #USAID funding.
#Women #Babies
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/31/g-s1-56594/childbirth-usaid-afghanistan

Tommy Vietor: "New York University cancelled a speech by the former head of #DoctorsWithoutBorders because she was going to mention casualties in Gaza and the impact of #USAID cuts. Thank God we finally ended #censorship and #CancelCulture on #college campuses." #politics #FreeSpeech

https://www.europesays.com/de/1402/ US-Konkurrenten springen ein: Trumps Kahlschlag macht sich auch in Myanmar bemerkbar #China #DonaldTrump #Erdbeben #Headlines #Hilfsprogramme #HumanitäreHilfe #Indien #International #Myanmar #Nachrichten #News #Russland #Schlagzeilen #TopNews #TopMeldungen #TopMeldungen #TopNews #USA #USAID #Welt #World

Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
Ten people who knew #JeremyLewin expressed concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth

The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (#USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-usaid-jeremy-lewin-accused-violence-racist-remarks-1235307731/

$5T lost on Wall Street to date. But hey #USAID.

Trump yönetimi USIAD'ın tasfiye sürecini başlattı: ABD Başkanı Donald Trump yönetimi, Elon Musk'ın başında olduğu Hükümetin Verimliliği Departmanı'nın yürüttüğü maliyet düşürme operasyonu kapsamında ABD Uluslararası Kalkınma Ajansı'nın tasfiye sürecini başlattı.

ABD basının adı açıklanmayan USAID yetkililerine dayandırdığı haberlerde, kaynakların binlerce yerel çalışan ile yurt dışında görevli… https://www.eshahaber.com.tr/haber/trump-yonetimi-us?ad-in-tasfiye-surecini-baslatti-215225.html&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon EshaHaber.com.tr #Trump #USAID #ElonMusk #DışişleriBakanlığı #Kongre

#nieuwsuur kunnen de aidsmedicijnen niet betaalbaar worden door de patenten op te heffen veel van het geld ging naar bigpharma in de VS #usaid

Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/musk-doge-usaid-firings #Trumpadministration #USforeignpolicy #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #ElonMusk #USnews #USAID

Nach #Trumps #Doge Kahlschlag war #USAID viel später nach #Erdbeben in #Myanmar, als Helfer aus #China, #Russland oder #Indien. https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Trumps-Kahlschlag-macht-sich-auch-in-Myanmar-bemerkbar-article25670075.html