The dismantling of USAID is the culmination of a decade-long realignment of Western approaches to development, inspired by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The GSEZ Mineral Port in Gabon, one of the ...

Foreign aid has long been a way for the United States and China to gain soft power and influence — providing public services in low-income countries that help them tackle poverty and disease, and ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is expanding into the Pacific through infrastructure projects and concessional loans, continuing a long history of flexible sovereignty influenced by external powers.

Washington has spent years warning countries about the dangers of accepting Chinese loans. But over the past two decades the United States has been the largest recipient globally. That’s the finding ...

Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that ...

China's first batch of emergency humanitarian aid to Myanmar is loaded onto an airplane in Beijing in March 2025. In response to a request from the Myanmar government, China gave emergency ...