In freezing foreign aid, the US leaves people to die – and allows China to come to the rescue
- Written by Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
One of the executive orders US President Donald Trump signed the day he was inaugurated was a 90-day pause in US foreign development assistance.
The US Agency for International Development, USAID, was ordered to halt funding. Programs worldwide were issued with stop-work orders.
All of a sudden, more than US$60 billion (around A$95 billion) of...
