As the United States winds back humanitarian assistance in Southeast Asia, its rival China may see an opportunity to expand ...

Foreign aid freeze and policy chaos could undermine soft power, but changes may put Washington in better position in rivalry ...

If DeepSeek is cheaper alternative 'it is possible that AI development and adoption in the Global South could take a Chinese turn': analyst Since its rapid rise, the Chinese artificial intelligence ...

Rubio has outlined a clear litmus test for U.S. foreign aid: It must make the U.S. safer, stronger, and more prosperous. AI ...

Trump is eroding America’s ability to inspire, encourage and persuade others to act in ways that serve common goals.

The sudden closure of the US’ foreign aid agency offers China opportunities to grow its soft power in the Global South, Chinese officials say, while warning that Beijing’s influence should not ...

While President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze and broader shift in US foreign policy offers China an opportunity to ...

Will China step up? The United States has long been the top donor ... Ohnesorge, a scholar of soft power, said Trump has a highly transactional worldview and is more attuned to hard power.

Will China step up? - The United States has long been the top donor in the world ... such as a new migrant crisis. - Different soft power? - Trump's aid freeze is officially only a 90-day review, and ...

Successive US administrations have vowed to wage a global competition with China, described as the ... effort by the United States to exercise "soft power" -- the ability of a country to persuade ...

When President Donald Trump froze nearly all US foreign aid, Cambodia was forced to suspend workers removing dangerous mines from the country -- until China stepped in with the necessary funding.