FTR, China (as the big communist-style economy) seems to be one of the smaller donors among the big economies to international aid programmes for both food and healthcare.
The US (until the schmuck) was the biggest by far for food contributions via the WFP, with the EU and individual donors making up the majority. Healthcare seems more balanced contribution-wise (not so much from the US)
Obviously it is hard to get exact numbers. In particular, China also has its own aid programme too. Estimates are of USD 5 billion to USD 8 billion per year (1,000 million) … a total for all aid.
Sure, aid is also used for leverage (soft power), but there certainly seems to be a historical pattern of the capitalist superpowers helping to feed the world, despite it often still not being enough…
It will be interesting to see if China has stepped up, with the US cutting back under trump.
edit: In a world where leaders and governments put the needs of people first, one wouldn’t need as much aid, of course.
It’s important to consider where this aid is going. In the US most of it’s forreign aid over history has been gone to fund verious wars, such as most recently the war in ukraine and the war in gaza, where particularly the war in gaza is going towards funding genocide, definitely not something I would consider a worthy cause.
Compare that to china which is specifically spending it’s money on helping the global south develop and lift developing countries out of poverty. It has been building infrastructure projects and giving grants mainly in africa but also in asia.
As I explained here, the food aid is a tool of imperialism. It’s a tool to keep the global south linked to the US Empire and remain underdeveloped, resulting in unequal exchange.
As for Ukraine, you’re entirely wrong. In 2014, the west backed the far-right Euromaidan coup because the democratically elected president, Yanukovych, picked a Russian loan over one from the IMF that required austerity measures. The Stepan Bandera-upholding neo-Nazis orchestrated the Maidan Massacre, and began ethnically cleansing the Donbass region. 13,000 civilians were murdered by the Kiev regime over the course of a decade in the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and it was only when Kiev had ammassed a gigantic invasion force that Russia intervened to protect the DPR and LPR per their requests for aid.
Here are even some western government sanctioned sources.
Groups like Azov have been folded in officially. The Kiev regime upholds Stepan Bandera and uses likeness for propaganda. Nazis infest Ukrainian leadership:
The east supported Yanukovych, and that’s why the far-right Banderites couping him kicked off the war.
At least 10 million every year from starvation and preventable diseases.
FTR, China (as the big communist-style economy) seems to be one of the smaller donors among the big economies to international aid programmes for both food and healthcare.
The US (until the schmuck) was the biggest by far for food contributions via the WFP, with the EU and individual donors making up the majority. Healthcare seems more balanced contribution-wise (not so much from the US)
Obviously it is hard to get exact numbers. In particular, China also has its own aid programme too. Estimates are of USD 5 billion to USD 8 billion per year (1,000 million) … a total for all aid.
Sure, aid is also used for leverage (soft power), but there certainly seems to be a historical pattern of the capitalist superpowers helping to feed the world, despite it often still not being enough…
It will be interesting to see if China has stepped up, with the US cutting back under trump.
edit: In a world where leaders and governments put the needs of people first, one wouldn’t need as much aid, of course.
It’s important to consider where this aid is going. In the US most of it’s forreign aid over history has been gone to fund verious wars, such as most recently the war in ukraine and the war in gaza, where particularly the war in gaza is going towards funding genocide, definitely not something I would consider a worthy cause.
Compare that to china which is specifically spending it’s money on helping the global south develop and lift developing countries out of poverty. It has been building infrastructure projects and giving grants mainly in africa but also in asia.
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This is utter bullshit.
As I explained here, the food aid is a tool of imperialism. It’s a tool to keep the global south linked to the US Empire and remain underdeveloped, resulting in unequal exchange.
As for Ukraine, you’re entirely wrong. In 2014, the west backed the far-right Euromaidan coup because the democratically elected president, Yanukovych, picked a Russian loan over one from the IMF that required austerity measures. The Stepan Bandera-upholding neo-Nazis orchestrated the Maidan Massacre, and began ethnically cleansing the Donbass region. 13,000 civilians were murdered by the Kiev regime over the course of a decade in the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, and it was only when Kiev had ammassed a gigantic invasion force that Russia intervened to protect the DPR and LPR per their requests for aid.
Here are even some western government sanctioned sources.
Groups like Azov have been folded in officially. The Kiev regime upholds Stepan Bandera and uses likeness for propaganda. Nazis infest Ukrainian leadership:
The east supported Yanukovych, and that’s why the far-right Banderites couping him kicked off the war.