WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's attempts to shutter the U.S. government's foreign aid agency have startled Asian development officials who had hoped to team up with Washington to offer countries in the region an alternative to Chinese assistance.
"It's so abrupt," a Washington representative at an Asian development government agency told Nikkei Asia. "Coordinating development policies with allies and partners was one of the pillars of the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific policies," the official said.
