Donald Trump has opened the door that Valadior Putin and Xi Jinping expand your Influence in Africa, Asia and Latin Americasomething that is already taking place since the withdrawal of the US as guarantor of humanitarian aid. While the US canceled the ‘Power Africa’ program, with 80 million dollars destined to promote American energy investments in Africa, China I already mobilized 50,000 million For infrastructure in the following three years, according to a report by the Democrats of the Senate Foreign Relations Commission, published this week. AND Russia ha officially announced that will start with a explicitly inspired humanitarian aid network In the already non -existent Statonidan Model.
Trump’s cuts in cooperation, which have ended completely with the American Agency for International Development (USAID), have left a void that the other two major world powers already take positions to occupy. The pattern is repeated in offices and on the ground. Beijing wants to be the main taxpayer of the World Health Organization after the American withdrawal, and has extended its humanitarian aid to countries dependent on foreign aids that have been neglected. China has donated 2 million dollars in rice to Ugandahas sent half a million tests of VIH A Zambiaand has entered with improvement agreements of Structures in Peru, Colombia and Ecuadorin the absence of the US in countries.
For its part, Russia has plans to enter directly to replace the already buried USAID. According to Yevgueni Primakov, director of the Russian Foreign Aid and Cultural Projection, the Kremlin prepares the legal framework to launch the agency, In the image and likeness of the American. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on a bill on International Development Aid to create a format similar to USAID, which can continue to exist or not,” he explained in an interview with the RBC Russian environment.
The Democratic ranks take their hands to their heads and try to appeal to the awareness of voters with pragmatic arguments. Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen warned that abandoning humanitarian aid bodies, such as UN agencies, does not favor the US, but gives space to rival powers. “I don’t think most Americans want to live in a world where the Chinese communist party marks the agenda.”he said. “We cannot mold these organizations or press for reforms if we are not at the table”he added.
14 million avoidable deaths
Inside the US government they were fully aware of the impact that the external withdrawal would have. With the end of Usaid, the low external aid that remains depends now on State Departmentdirected by the ultraconservator Marco Rubio. In 2022 Rubio warned to Democratic President Joe Biden of the importance of maintaining the financing of Usaid “to send a clear message that USA has a comprehensive strategy To counteract the growing influence of Chinese Communist Party and the threat that means for the security interests of USA and his allies ”.
Now, three years later those words sound like a self -fulfilling prophecy, while Rubio seems to have changed his mind, not because China has lost international influence but as a result of the Tour of the Republican Party that has gone to prioritize Trump’s ‘first’. “We went from being the country that if there was an emergency or humanitarian crisis, it was the first to respond. Now we are so unreliable that it is unlikely that we appear,” he warned Gayle Smithex -administrator of USAID under the mandate of Barack Obamato the newspaper Politico.
He Washington withdrawal Not only opens a geopolitical vacuum: it will also cause Avoidable deaths. According to a study published this month in ‘The Lancet’, USAID has saved more than 90 million lives In the last two decades. However, the report projects that 14 million people will die, of which 4.5 million are children under five years old, if the current closing scenario of hard health programs only the current presidency of Trump.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), dismantled by President Donald Trump / Thomas Ful / Europa Press
Help development against communism
On the last operating day of the agency, Republican president George W. Bush challenged the line marked by the party absorbed by Trump and defended the achievements of the Emergency plan for AIDS reliefwho saved more than 25 million people. “Is it in our interest that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think so,” he said. Also Barack Obama described the closure of USAID like “A colossal error”, Regretting that“ eliminate its presence and programs in the world damages the most needyand also damages USA”.
It ends like this, at least for the moment, the story of more than 60 years of USAIDcreated by the president John F. Kennedy. In his speech to Congress of USAthe charismatic president drew a direct bridge between the Help the development and promotion of American ideals: The fight against communism, which should unite progressive and conservatives. “The war against hunger, ignorance and poverty is not a war of choice, it is a war of necessity. If we do not help the world in development to help itself, we run the risk of succumbing to the ambitions of others that do not offer freedom, progress or hope, only communism and coercion,” he said in a speech that seems more current than ever.
He USAID futurewhose ashes have been integrated into the State Departmentcontinue in court. In April, several unions and NGOs, such as Oxfam Americathey took the case to the courts to stop the closure of the agency. The Government has asked that the case be filed, referring to an administrative error. The verdict is still pending, but the expectations are low in a USA where the president jumps to the judges whose decisions against their agenda.
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