No. of Recommendations: 7
if we want countries to align with the US, we would do well to make a favorable impression
One of those countries said "Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture.".
Another: "what we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture."
Another: "But the truth is, when we're engaged with the Chinese, we get an airport. And when we're engaged with you guys, we get a lecture.”
Those comments go back a long time.
USAID was sending money to countries for odd things, " for production of a “DEI musical” ,
for a “transgender opera” in Colombia,
for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala,
for a “transgender comic book” in Peru, ...
Somehow I doubt that China was funding things like that.
I am not sure why any country *ever* trusted & respected the US.
