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I'm surprised eu or China haven't stepped in already to fill the gap
They are. They have plans, and they're working on it. It's a perfect way for them to spread influence globally. It worked for the US for decades, until a Russian operative shut it down to make the US look bad.
China may stand to gain more by letting a few million die first, showing that the US isn't the global leader that it once was. I can't imagine this is a small-scale operation, and it could take time to set up.
I don't care who feeds the people, as long as they get food. Cancelling food aid out of nowhere with multiple commitments already made? That's just shitty business.
China has more of a reputation for indebting poorer countries to them, and just buying debt in general from as many countries as possible.
I imagine they are looking at this less as an opportunity to fill the gap with soft power, and more of an opportunity to push desperate countries into debt with them. Our soft power moves were preventing that from being necessary in the way it will be now
Theyve basically financially colonized a lot of Africa at this point already, even when we were sending a lot of aid there. Its massively beneficial for China to have as much control/leverage as possible over the countries that supply raw materials for their manufacturing economy
China has played the long game for longer than most countries have even existed. Rich countries owe them and buy everything from them. Poorer countries owe them and sell everything to them
I would love China to step into that peace protest. They should have been leading the discussion since the 1990s as they have no horse in this race at all.