USAID to be merged into State Department, 3 U.S. officials say

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USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, will be merged into the State Department with significant cuts in the workforce, but it will remain a humanitarian aid entity, three U.S. officials told CBS News. 

USAID to be merged into State Department, 3 U.S. officials say

When Rubio says national interests, he means the interests of big corporations.

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PH: Stratbase, CIPE (NED), and the Belt and Road Initiative

07-31-2024: If it’s bad business, it’s bad for the Philippines (archived)

Our organization, the Stratbase ADR Institute, received an award from the prestigious Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC. We were recognized for our research, advocacy, and strategic communication on four infrastructure projects entered into by the Philippines, during the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, under the Belt and Road Initiative of China.

The Philippines has currently withdrawn from the Belt and Road Initiative and the current administration has been careful to consider other partners aside from China.

Victor Andres “Dindo” C. Manhit is the president of the Stratbase ADR Institute.

Just like the National Endowment for Democracy, CIPE has been scrubbing their website. Search for the Philippines and click on the results. Most of the links are missing.

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RAND and SeaLight Part 3b: Four Ways China Is Growing Its Media Influence in Southeast Asia

05-10-2022: Four Ways China Is Growing Its Media Influence in Southeast Asia

China’s most straightforward method of media outreach is directly broadcasting or publishing its state media content in target ASEAN countries. Xinhua, China’s official state media agency, has print bureaus in every Southeast Asian country. TV news channels CCTV-4 and the English-language CGTN likewise operate in nearly every country in the region, while China Radio International airs multilingual content in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar. Xinhua is a ministry-level agency directly under the State Council, while the other media organizations all operate under the Chinese Communist Party Publicity Department. 

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5 Vietnamese Communist Party officials jailed for helping abducted blogger +

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5 Vietnamese Communist Party officials jailed for helping abducted blogger

Vietnam has jailed five party members for feeding information to Duong Van Thai, a blogger who is believed to have been abducted in Thailand last year and resurfaced in Vietnamese custody, the human rights group 88 Project reported, citing sources inside the government.

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Vietnamese court sentences blogger to 12 years in prison for anti-state propaganda

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Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism

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Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism

In the latest front in the culture war over school curricula, the House of Representatives is set to vote Friday on a bill that would give a congressional stamp of approval to the lesson plans of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a group closely linked to fervently hawkish corners of the foreign policy blob. 

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PH: Lariosa

Aaron-Matthew Lariosa – Muck Rack

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New Trier High School (Chicago suburbs): What it’s like to be a minority at an 83.3% white school

Sophomore Aaron Matthew Lariosa, an Asian American, believes that while ignorance is why people are racist, the topic of race itself is sensitive.

“People are ignorant in a way,” stated Lariosa. “The topic [of race] is really touchy.”

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In 2016, Newsweek magazine ranked New Trier as the top open-enrollment high school in Illinois and the 17th best high school in the country.

New Trier High School is an affluent high school. I wonder who his parents are?

New Trier High School is known for its arts program, which the U.S. Department of Education has recognized as one of the top 25 in the country.

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American Foreign Service Association

About AFSA

The American Foreign Service Association, established in 1924, is both professional association and exclusive representative for the U.S. Foreign Service. AFSA’s close to 16,800 members include active-duty and retired members of the Foreign Service at the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Commercial Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and U.S. Agency for Global Media.

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