{"id":69344,"date":"2025-02-07T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/donald-trump-usaid-shutdown-impact-china-relationship-funding"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:30:03","slug":"us-cedes-ground-to-china-with-self-inflicted-wound-of-usaid-shutdown-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69344","title":{"rendered":"US cedes ground to China with \u2018self-inflicted wound\u2019 of USAid shutdown, analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudden suspension of aid funding a \u2018perfect opportunity\u2019 for Beijing to fill the gap and grow its own soft power<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/01\/usaid-website-offline-trump\">shutdown of USAid<\/a> has already had disastrous effects on humanitarian aid and development programmes around the world, but it has also ceded ground to the US\u2019s chief rival, China, analysts have said.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the sudden 90-day suspension of USAid funding \u2013 which accounts for 40% of global foreign aid \u2013 has been chaos: employees locked out of offices, humanitarian shipments left to rot, and lifesaving assistance stopped. Around the world, development programmes previously assisted by the USAid are panicking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/feb\/04\/deaths-predicted-amid-the-chaos-of-elon-musks-shutdown-of-usaid\">warning of disastrous risks<\/a> of escalating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/jan\/31\/trumps-aid-freeze-shuts-down-gold-standard-famine-monitoring-system\">famine<\/a>, death and disease.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/donald-trump-usaid-shutdown-impact-china-relationship-funding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudden suspension of aid funding a \u2018perfect opportunity\u2019 for Beijing to fill the gap and grow its own soft powerDonald Trump\u2019s shutdown of USAid has already had disastrous effects on humanitarian aid and development programmes around the world, but it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"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":[41,50,554,3251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-trump-administration","category-usaid"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344","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\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69345,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344\/revisions\/69345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}