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An interesting article below about Xi's aims and techniques to win African souls. Yet the survey suggests Africans are as suspicious of Chinese aid as they are of Western aid. Still, China is 'all in' regarding Chinese- African cooperation. "What FOCAC 2024 Reveals About the Future of China-Africa Relations | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace" https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/11/what-focac-2024-reveals-about-the-future-of-china-africa-relations?lang=en

As has been explained many times, no one knows how many of the women and children killed were involved as a front for Hamas fighters because Israel never allowed foreign journalists into Gaza to verify its claims. Every time a building was flattened with a large number of civilian casualties, the IDF said it had definite intelligence Hamas was operating from said building. Yet the world was never allowed to challenge this claim. I don't believe the IDF.

Flip flops Donald, causing confusion and chaos as he stumbles in a job he's wholly unsuited for.

'I will get it settled before I even become President ' Lol, nonsense from Donald

Lol

The massacres of the Rohingya, the mass killings of Myanmar civilians by its own junta, are conveniently ignored by the Thais, indifferent to the suffering next door. But this thread is about Trump's abrupt cessation of aid programmes. I'll start two threads tomorrow about the Myanmar and Sudanese civil wars, but is there any interest?

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ( that mediocrity can pay to greatness).

Inspired by Trump's threat to seize Greenland, a well-known Russian pundit proposes Trump lets Russia 'empty' Ukraine, as Trump himself suggests regarding Gaza. A win-win all round, he claims , but there is disagreement amongst the resident pundits.

Donald flipflopped today. On Monday he ordered a freeze on federal funding. Today, Wednesday he rescinded the order. lol, four years of chaos and stupidity ahead. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-revokes-spending-freeze-face-legal-challenges-2025-01-29/

That's what Israel claims every time a building is flattened with innocent civilians dying, but Israel refuses to let independent journalists verify their claims. I don't believe the IDF.

Thai officials have transported the sickest patients to other facilities. However, The International Rescue Committee (IRC), which funds the clinics with U.S. support, told the facilities to shut by Friday, Jan. 31, according to a local official and two camp committee members https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-refugees-face-sudden-discharge-thai-hospitals-shuttered-by-us-aid-freeze-2025-01-29/

The figures quoted come from Hamas because Israel refuses to allow any foreign journalist into Gaza unless embedded with the IDF. So we have no idea how many Gaza civilians were/are working for Hamas. It's so easy for Israel to claim all the dead were Hamas operatives or living in a building operated by Hamas. The destruction of hospitals, water supplies, nearly every building standing in northern Gaza, even fields used for agriculture, is a clear indication Israel is hell bent on making life impossible for Gaza citizens, a sickening crime in my view.

Myanmar refugees face sudden discharge from Thai hospitals shuttered by US aid freeze | Reuters https://search.app/iCe7G7FByRSNo2Xs9

The clock started ticking as soon as Donald took office. He claimed he would stop the war within 24 hours of taking office. Hey, if voters used rational thinking they'd never vote for such a character, lol Donald Trump Said He'd End Ukraine War in First 24 Hours. He Hasn't - Newsweek https://search.app/FoMTSFvBgxewiYdi6

Springfield pet-eating hoax - Wikipedia

Trump claiming to end the war in 24 hours.

No one is ignoring all the innocent children dying around the world in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and several other parts of Africa but this thread is about Trump's halt to foreign aid and its effect.

Obviously through unprotected sex or rape. However the HIV child is innocent, and so is the HIV mother if it is rape.

Other countries provide 60% of world aid.

Children can get HIV from their mothers

49.7% of American voters chose Trump, not even a majority. And where does making US great again mean cutting foreign, especially medical aid, to poor countries?

A massive rejection of Trump New opinion poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join US | Greenland | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/28/85-of-greenlanders-do-not-want-to-join-us-says-new-poll

Apart from humanity, a word Donald can't pronounce, soft power is the answer. To promote stability and growth amongst nations, a love for democracy and Western nations (the US provides 40% of world aid). Of course China will delight in Donald's abrupt cessation of medical aid. Great propaganda for their narrative of long term, sustained aid to developing nations. A stupid action by Trump.

Zimbabwe achieved a milestone in HIV/AIDS diagnosis, treatment and suppression of viral load, thanks in large part to a groundbreaking HIV program created by Republican President George W. Bush, credited with saving more than 20 million lives. However, the programme — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR — has been targeted by Republican hardliners, and its abrupt cessation will cost lives unless quickly reinstated. No doubt U.S. rival China will be happy to move into areas of Africa to build its influence and business contracts in resource-rich countries. “Feeding hungry children in Liberia or malnourished children in Kenya, providing life-saving anti-retroviral drugs in Uganda — none of these things undermine American interests,” said Gyude Moore, a former Cabinet minister in Liberia who is now a fellow at the U.S.-based Center for Global Development.

Sorry to concentrate on Trump. I thought he was the current President or Vice President of the US.