WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation ... since Kiribati aligned itself with China in 2019 and signed a series of ...

U.S. efforts to aid American businesses abroad and to counter China’s rising influence could close. Veterans in Ukraine who call a crisis hotline may soon get a recorded message, with no promise ...

Popular influencer Li Ziqi is featured at the 2025 Henan TV Spring Festival gala. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] To embrace the Year of the Snake, Henan TV will stage the Spring Festival ...

“Conditioning aid for American citizens is wrong,” the governor’s office posted on social media. Lawmakers in Congress are debating how to proceed with federal assistance to Los ...

The U.S. should rethink Chinese perceptions of geopolitical conflict because China brings a fundamentally different perspective to politics than the West, Xinru Ma, a research scholar at the ...

It is unclear how much aid will initially be impacted by the order, as many programs are already funded through Congressional appropriations and obligations. The order, part of a series of ...

Later, Carson broke the tension with the line “The President has asked for severe cuts in aid to the arts and humanities ... in the face of real-world catastrophe—is one that dates back ...

Washington, D.C. — President Donald Trump has signed a temporary executive order halting all U.S. foreign aid programs for 90 days, pending a review to assess whether these programs align with ...

The order, among many Trump signed on his first day back in office, said the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

It is 10 years since Beijing announced an ambitious plan called Made in China 2025 to transform the country from "a low-cost manufacturing base into a high-tech superpower". President Xi Jinping's ...