US looks to boost anti-China spending worldwide

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The Trump administration is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars for programs designed to counter China's growing influence around the world, after it had put a halt to many of those initiatives last year during a flurry of budget and personnel cuts.

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... The State Department is considering spending nearly half a billion dollars more on programs aimed at China throughout the Western Hemisphere, Africa and Asia, according to an internal State Department document obtained by AP.

"The United States must respond to the CCP's growing economic, technological, and diplomatic leverage around the world which undermines our national interests," the document says, using the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-29 12:05 AM | Reply

OK, so, after Pres Trump's DOGE chain-saw cuts and whimsical tariffs apparently have pushed our allies away from us, Pres Trump now wants to spend money to try to woo those allies back?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-29 12:08 AM | Reply

China is the World's Workshop.

We ceded that to them for a Mess O' Pottage.

It's Too late to go back now.

They will keep making Quality Goods for World Export.

We will keep losing Wars of Aggression.

Who's Really the Bad Guy?

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-29 03:37 PM | Reply