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Why Did Americans Fund China Taking American Jobs and Sending Back Viruses? Perhaps It’s The Trillions They’ve Loaned America Since Bush-Bush Occupation?
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Why Did Americans Fund China Taking American Jobs and Sending Back Viruses? Perhaps It’s The Trillions They’ve Loaned America Since Bush-Bush Occupation?
Despite its strong association with the federal budget, foreign aid isn’t just money. It’s anything that one country donates or provides for the benefit of another country. This can be money. However, foreign aid can also include goods, such as food or technical support. Most American foreign aid funds go through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a semi-independent agency that manages the lion’s share of America’s development and humanitarian aid.
We’ve previously explained foreign aid, and covered some popular foreign aid myths and facts. Let’s take a look at who receives the most foreign aid, and how the US is contributing to much-needed development and humanitarian activities around the world. Broadly speaking, the US government classifies foreign as one of two categories: military aid and economic aid.
The foreign aid budget goes through several phases, beginning with the president’s budget request, and continuing through the appropriation and planning phase, obligations, and, finally, disbursements. Reporting these numbers can take some time, so we’ll look at what was actually paid out in 2023, and what the president has requested in funding for 2024.
Where we gave the most foreign aid in 2023
In 2023, the United States spent nearly $61 billion on foreign aid. Fully half of that budget has gone to just ten countries:
Where we’re budgeting the most foreign aid in 2024
The 2024 foreign aid budget was released in February, 2024. Many of these numbers can change—for example, in 2023, just under $775 million was budgeted for Syria. However, the actual disbursements increased by $121 million (in part due to the earthquake that hit Syria and Tรผrkiye). That said, the proposed budget for 2024 is a little over $50 billion, roughly 17% less than 2023, with 20% of that budget requested for just ten countries:
Israel ($3.3 billion)
Jordan ($1,45 billion)
Egypt ($1,43 billion)
Ukraine ($774 million)
Nigeria ($625 million)
Mozambique ($564 million)
Uganda ($562 million)
Tanzania ($561 million)
Kenya ($514 million)
Zambia ($507 million)
James Nangiro Lokwatuk (31) has been part of Concern Kenya’s livestock treatment e-voucher program for the past two months. Funded by USAID, the emergency response scheme enables pastoralists to access treatment from a private sector veterinary supplies company at a reduced cost. The idea is to motivate herders to treat their animals routinely, so that they will continue to make it a priority when the scheme finishes. (Photo: Gavin Douglas / Concern Worldwide)
How are countries spending foreign assistance?
What countries do with their foreign assistance from the United States depends on what the aid is earmarked for.
For example, 25% of Jordan’s funding in 2023 was designated for military assistance. This can include a broad range of programming, from counter-terror operations to strengthening legal and judicial systems.
On the other end of the spectrum, many of the top countries for US foreign aid received overwhelmingly economic assistance in 2023. In many of these cases, the majority of economic aid has been designated for areas such as emergency response, food security, and maternal and child health.
Suliman* and his family are refugees from Syria, who lost their home in Tรผrkiye during the February 2023 earthquake. Non-food essentials, delivered by Concern and funded by USAID, helped them to recover their losses.
Where does Concern fit in all this?
Concern Worldwide’s funding comes from a variety of sources, including the US government. The difference American foreign aid makes to the people that we work with cannot be overstated. Some achievements that have been powered by foreign aid include:
Getting children through to their second birthday
Continuous funding from USAID between 2008 and 2019 fueled Concern's Child Survival projects, which reached over 1.9 million women, children, community volunteers, and health workers in seven countries. This work was part of the largest USAID-NGO partnership for health, and the second-largest overall USAID-NGO partnership in the organization’s history.
Setting a new standard for treating malnutrition
USAID was also a key funder for Community Management of Acute Malnutrition, a pilot program that Concern co-developed 20 years ago that has now recognized by World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme as a best practice in child nutrition.
Training the next generation of humanitarian leaders
Another key Concern project, the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership (NNPHL) was made possible in part by foreign aid, which in turn has trained dynamic and relevant training opportunities that help learners build their skills, knowledge, and confidence to take on leadership responsibilities in humanitarian organizations in order to improve the delivery of services to those in need of humanitarian assistance. Since the program began in 2019, NNPHL has received more than 4,000 applications and trained 243 humanitarians from 51 countries.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is carrying out a malign influence operation against her due to her criticism of the party and its harm to the American people.
“It’s nothing new for me to be informed that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to carry out an adverse or malign influence campaign against me. They’ve been very active in social, on social media against me. This is something that has gone on over an extended period of time. … And this time around, they — they’re trying to spread misinformation and disinformation in my election,” she said.
Blackburn is running for re-election against challenger Rep. Gloria Johnson (D-TN) and has a 23-point lead over her, according to a recent poll conducted by the Beacon Center of Tennessee.
The senator recently released a campaign ad called “It’s Time to Break China,” in which she called for tougher measures against China. In the ad, she says:
Some say I’m too tough, that I should be more delicate. But you know what? It’s time to break some China. China stole our jobs, sent us a virus. They’re buying up our land and spying on us. I’m Marsha Blackburn, and I approved this message because we’re going to have to break a lot more China to save America.
Blackburn told Breitbart News that “people are loving” the ad, “because they can relate to it.”
“People know that China took our jobs. They know they sent us a virus. They know that they don’t take responsibility, that they don’t take their trade agreements [seriously], especially with Tennessee, [agricultural] products and exports that we have,” she said. “People know that China is part of the axis of evil and that they’re spying on our citizens. They sent a spy balloon to go sashaying across our country. They know that TikTok is something that endangers our children. So people relate to the China ad on so many different levels.”
She said she hopes after the 2024 election that Congress can get bipartisan agreement to to make certain China “keeps up their end of the deal.”
“When it comes to our trade, we also need to be firm with them and sanction them when they start throwing spy balloons across the country. We need to make certain that the divestment of TikTok takes place so that China no longer is collecting this data and information on our children. We also need to pass a bill that that disallows these Confucius Institutes and Confucius classrooms in our K through 12 schools and on our college campuses, because that is a part of China’s soft propaganda,” she said.
She said the CCP also “regularly” probes United States military bases, as well as cyberattacks hospitals.
“And not only that, I was talking with one of our hospital administrators, and they were talking about the number of hack attacks that they get, cyber attacks that they get, not only every week, but every day. And most of this is coming from China or other actors in the axis of evil, which are Russia, Iran, North Korea and China,” she said.
“China is our, our primary adversary and threat, when you look at their push to be globally dominant by the time we get to the midpoint of this century, and when you read TheHundred-Year Marathon, you see what China is up to, when you look at what they are doing through the Belt and Road Initiative and what they are doing with debt diplomacy.
“Then see what China is up to on a global basis when you see them coming into our hemisphere and entering into debt diplomacy agreements and establishing ports, you see that they’re trying to spread their footprint,” she said.
