The abrupt firing of most staff at the US Agency for International Development — a process the White House put into motion this week — is likely to benefit China on the world stage. "The chaotic end ...

One China expert told Newsweek that the USAID funding freeze had handed an "enormous gift" to Beijing's push to influence the Global South. Meanwhile, one Kremlin propagandist has said on Russian ...

But the exit of US foreign assistance has created an opportunity for Beijing to strengthen its presence on the continent, say ...

While the future of many USAID programmes in the region is unclear, some analysts believe that China is likely to leave projects with a more political or ideological focus to other partners to the ...

The Trump administration’s pause of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding may leave the door open for China to spread its influence, and Beijing is not wasting time ...

President Trumps says U.S. foreign aid "doesn't align" with his America First agenda. But in Latin America, data suggest it ...

The global landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, a tectonic shift in the balance of influence. The sixth annual Global Soft Power Index, ...

Beyond the agency’s program to monitor Chinese state-owned enterprise investments worldwide, “USAID is intimately involved in ... countering China, Russia, Iran, the DPRK [North Korea], global ...

Beijing "will move quickly to replace the U.S. in many countries," a former director of the agency told Newsweek.

Comments by Dr. Fitriani were incorrectly attributed to Bethany Allen, head of Program for China Investigations and Analysis at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. As the United States ...

"The strong counter-China infrastructure that we developed over at USAID was simply dismantled by the next administration," he told lawmakers at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing entitled ...

The end of USAID could mean more space for China to expand its global influence. The agency "assists US commercial interests," the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said last month.