US President Donald Trump has shut down USAID, the United States’ leading foreign aid agency, as part of a broader plan spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Trump administration has sharply criticized USAID, accusing it of perpetuating distortions and anomalies through its aid administered to developing countries. Musk called USAID “the […]The post China’s largesse was always a better deal than USAID’s appeared first on Asia Times.