Trump’s USID cut an earthquake reaction in Myanmar

China, Russia and India have supplied to myanmar, who took refuge in ambulance groups and earthquakes. So there are Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnamese.

The United States did not send anything once in the world’s richest country and once in foreign assistance.

As President Trump unloading The US Agency for International Development has said America’s help is on the way to Myanmar, where he went 7.7 magnitude earthquake He passed through the country’s heavy settlement in Friday. According to the military government of Myanmary, 1,700 people were killed and the dead and rescue teams are expected to reach away from the dead.

However, the USAID assessment team is not expected to arrive until Wednesdays, people who have knowledge of placement work. The general American response was more slow than normal cases, previously disaster assistance efforts, as well as people working for myanmar aid.

Chinese search and rescue teams, which are taught to hug closed people, Mandalay, one of Myanmar’s second largest city and the most affected locations from the earthquake. There is Chinese $ 14 million pledged Myanmar is 126 rescue officers for the earthquake relief and six dogs, medical sets, drones and earthquake detectors.

“Be a philanthropist and look like a charity, it serves American foreign policy,” he said. “If we don’t show you and don’t show China, it sends a very strong message.”

On Sunday, the US Embassy in Myanmar said that the United States would provide up to $ 2 million on the basis of Myanmar, to $ 2 million through humanitarian groups. However, many systems needed to help Myanmar American American.

On Friday, as some workers of the USAID Humanitarian Aid Bureau, they responded to the earthquake Agency layoff emails. Career diplomats working for USAID and other employees were prepared for withdrawals for weeks; Trump political forces in Washington have already fired most of the contractors working for the Agency.

The workers who received the floor notifications reported that they had to go home in the afternoon. Some associate the disaster response in Asia, Bangkok and Manila, who managed the disaster reaction.

Two of the workers in Washington, they waited to work in Yangona, Myanmar and Bangkok as humanitarian aid advisers. But these positions were cut. They were not, the two workers would be on the ground to organize emergency answers to the earthquake.

On Friday, after the disaster, the US Embassy in Yangon had sent a cable to the USAID headquarters in Washington to start assessing the assessment process and assisting the door. Trump Management Political Appointment in USAID next day, Meisburger teamHe called the authorities from the national security agencies to discuss a plan.

However, Mr. Meisburger said he would be answered, no one should expect the agency’s capabilities to be what they had in the past, he said that a man with direct knowledge of the call.

USAID spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

The agency usually has access to food and emergency supplies in Dubai and Subang Jaya, and warehouses in Malaysia. But now the big question can buy myanmar from these places after almost completely demolished. The goods are more than three months, each of which includes 30,000 medical sets that can serve the health needs of 30,000.

In addition to career diplomats, the Agency’s Humanitarian Aid Bureau includes crisis specialist contractors living around the world, and disaster assistance is called response groups. Many of these contractors were dismissed and people who can order infrastructure – flights in Washington and other offices, and people who can manage payments, for example, were crippled by cuts in the last two months.

The agency will usually put the search groups in Virginia and Southern California, which is usually possible to direct the disaster zone, but also the search groups confirmed in South California, but for a former assistance agency employee trained transport contracts for these teams.

USAID’s annual allocation for Myanmar was $ 320 million last year. This was about $ 170 million for humanitarian work, and the rest were for development initiatives such as democracy building and health. It remains a project operation worth a few million dollars, although some of these programs have not been financed, despite the fact that the initiatives are not shut down for the main and child health.

Before cutting, the annual expenditures of the total US foreign assistance were less than 1 percent of the federal budget.

Last week at a press conference in Jamaica, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the United States continues to external assistance and reduced the foreign assistance, he said, continued to work. He said that the purpose of foreign policy priorities and the priorities of our host countries and the priorities of our partners are strategically adapted.

On Friday, the State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce, crisis groups are ready to place Myanmar, he said.

The ability to provide the US rescue assistance was not only with a budget cut, but in the midst of Myanmary. Since the seizes the government in 2021, Myanmar’s military threats closed the country from the western influence. Myanmar is now building an empty coalition, which manages more than half of the country’s territory with an empty coalition of the country’s territory in the civil war.

The United States and other Western peoples, the Military Chief, which organized a brutally record and coup of the double gene with the sanctions of Junta, thanked Chae and Russia for ideological and economic support.

Nevertheless, a few hours after the earthquake, General Min Aung HLAEM said he was welcomed outside the elimination of disasters and be outside the countries with a military regime.

Myanmar experts say that some aid passing through Junta are concerned about the armed forces. Myanmar has a mood, as a myanmar army, as the military, which is fighting with resistance forces on many fronts.

Residents in Mandalay said they were saddened by seeing soldiers sleep around the collapsed buildings. Some played video games on their phones, and local residents used brick bricks.

Again, Chinese and Russian search and rescue teams in orange and blue dresses are drilled through the rubble in Mandalay, and the Belgian delegation was on the north.

A good part of USAID was dedicated to the territory of the country without Junta. American assistance went for health and education for IDPs. In the areas of the conflicts, mini governments supported local governments. And this tried to provide ambulance to the civilians who were beaten by air attacks.

In the Sagaing area, the Cunta resistance towers, myanmar military planes, after the earthquake after the earthquake, added more terrorism to the lives of residents, in the village of Khwe carried out air attacks in the village of Khwe.

“It’s like a thousand Aung HLAING, if not the earthquake, and he does not have attacks,” he said, “said a villager, Ko Aung Kyaw.

However, Mr. Aung Kyaw, the body, Americans, otherwise, or otherwise, he said he could not relieve the situation. Sagaing has been suffering for four years, and the people died thousands in the fight against Khunta. External aid, it is likely to benefit the military regime, not the most likely needed.

“In the end we have ourselves,” he said. “Now we have resisted for four years and whatever we have to go forward to our own way.”

Stephanie Nolen Contributing report,