r/neoliberal • u/Independent-Low-2398 • Oct 08 '24

America is losing South-East Asia to China News (Asia)

https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/10/03/america-is-losing-south-east-asia-to-china
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u/PhilosophusFuturum Oct 08 '24

He’s not running anymore so we can stop pretending he’s doing a good job.

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u/Daddy_Macron Emily Oster Oct 08 '24

Underfunding the State Department and letting national security clowns take over everything is a bipartisan issue at this point. After gutting the State Department under Trump, it never really got built back up again and it's been understaffed to the point where America's most active and prolific "diplomat" to South America is a fucking General (Laura Richardson), which you do not have to be a raging South American Leftist to be deeply uncomfortable about.