{"id":70628,"date":"2025-04-01T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/31\/myanmar-earthquake-us-slow-to-act-as-other-countries-step-in"},"modified":"2025-04-01T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:47:10","slug":"myanmar-earthquake-china-and-others-step-into-aid-gap-left-by-trump-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70628","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar earthquake: China and others step into aid gap left by Trump cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president accused of blowing up country\u2019s ability to respond to disasters by removing funding<\/p>\n<p>As aid from China, Russia, India and the UK begins to flow into Myanmar, there is a conspicuous gap in global support from the world\u2019s richest country: the US.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-almost-700-as-search-for-survivors-continues\">powerful 7.7-magnitude quake<\/a> that struck central Myanmar on Friday has caused widespread destruction, flattening swathes of the country\u2019s second-largest city, Mandalay, and even a tower block in the Thai capital, Bangkok, more than 600 miles (1,000km) away.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/31\/myanmar-earthquake-us-slow-to-act-as-other-countries-step-in\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president accused of blowing up country\u2019s ability to respond to disasters by removing fundingAs aid from China, Russia, India and the UK begins to flow into Myanmar, there is a conspicuous gap in global support from the world\u2019s richest country: the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4666,"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":[263,82,1709,61,45,47,3251,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-myanmar","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-usaid","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628","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\/4666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628\/revisions\/70629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}