{"id":69210,"date":"2025-01-30T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/30\/donald-trump-foreign-aid-freeze-impact-south-east-asia"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T06:11:10","slug":"demining-to-democracy-how-trumps-foreign-aid-freeze-will-affect-south-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69210","title":{"rendered":"Demining to democracy: how Trump\u2019s foreign aid freeze will affect south-east Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US funding provides humanitarian assistance to a region vulnerable to natural disasters and support for pro-democracy activists battling repressive regimes<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s executive order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/26\/trump-threatens-disciplinary-action-usaid-staff\">halting US foreign aid funding flows<\/a> for 90 days for review has caused global confusion and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>In south-east Asia, such funding provides humanitarian assistance to communities that are among the most vulnerable in the world to natural disasters, as well as support for pro-democracy activists who risk their lives to campaign against repressive regimes. It\u2019s unclear how much of this will be affected, or what the long-term impacts will be. However, life-saving programmes in the region are already being cut back.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/30\/donald-trump-foreign-aid-freeze-impact-south-east-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US funding provides humanitarian assistance to a region vulnerable to natural disasters and support for pro-democracy activists battling repressive regimesTrump\u2019s executive order halting US foreign aid funding flows for 90 days for review has caused gl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,156,82,554,45,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-indonesia","category-myanmar","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210\/revisions\/69211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}