An indication for the US Institute of Peace at its headquarters in Washington. President Donald Trump signed an government order to disband a number of federal advisory committees together with the Institute of Peace.
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An indication for the US Institute of Peace at its headquarters in Washington. President Donald Trump signed an government order to disband a number of federal advisory committees together with the Institute of Peace.
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Photographs
The argument for worldwide help is partly an ethical one, however it’s additionally been about U.S. pursuits. As then-senator Marco Rubio put it in 2017: “I promise you it is going to be rather a lot more durable to recruit somebody to anti-Americanism, anti-American terrorism if the US of America was the explanation why they’re even alive as we speak.”
Now, as secretary of state, Rubio serves underneath a president who’s deeply skeptical of the thought of worldwide help. “We’re giving billions and billions of {dollars} to international locations that hate us,” President Trump stated in a speech final month. His administration shuttered the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth. A federal decide stated this week that transfer violated the structure. What’s left of the company has been folded into the State Division.
Trump has additionally moved to intestine government-funded, editorially impartial broadcasters like Voice of America, and tried to successfully eradicate the congressionally-funded suppose tank the U.S. Institute of Peace.
This kind of gentle energy has been a pillar of American overseas coverage. Is the Trump administration strolling away from it?
We speak to former Democratic congressman and former secretary of agriculture, Dan Glickman, who sponsored the laws that created the USIP.
And NPR’s Emily Feng stories on the legacy of Voice of America in China.
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This episode was produced by Erika Ryan, Gurjit Kaur and Connor Donevan. It was edited by Christopher Intagliata, Padmananda Rama and Gerry Holmes. Our government producer is Sami Yenigun.
