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Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250206201951/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/authoritarian-usaid-elon-musk


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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If your enemies rejoice, maybe reconsider your path, no?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Orange Julius and the Nazi love those guys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

There is another source related to the topic:

With US funding freeze, China nonprofits are facing extinction. They need emergency assistance. -- (Archived version)

An entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis. When the Trump administration froze foreign funding and USAID programs last week, dozens of scrappy nonprofits in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US were immediately affected. Staff are losing their jobs; some organizations face imminent closure due to lack of funding; others are paring back their programming.

In many cases, these organisations provide our last window into what is actually happening in China. They do the painstaking and often personally risky work of tracking Chinese media censorship, tallying local protests, uncovering human rights violations, documenting the Uyghur genocide, and supporting what remains of civil society in China. They provide platforms for Chinese people to speak freely; they help keep the dream of democracy in China alive. I’m not listing the names of any specific organisations at this time, because some prefer not to disclose that they receive foreign funding. Beijing believes funding that supports free speech and human rights is interference by ‘hostile foreign forces’.

As China’s President Xi Jinping has squeezed Chinese civil society and expelled journalists, information from inside China has got harder and harder to access. The 2017 Chinese foreign NGO law crushed US and other foreign nonprofits based in China. Some moved to Hong Kong or elsewhere. The spending freeze may deal them a death blow.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Cause USAID is primarily a tool of imperialism with any "humanitarian" efforts serving that goal?