Restore Clear Choice counter-China architecture and condition aid on resisting Beijing
Mandate urges restoring Trump-era Clear Choice infrastructure, ending climate framing that advantages China, assessing bilateral aid through national-security lens, financing anti-China programs, and cutting partners that engage Chinese entities.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 9 (USAID) — Counter-China: next conservative Administration should restore and build on Trump counter-China infrastructure; end climate policy fanaticism that advantages Beijing; assess bilateral aid through U.S. national security interests, rewarding countries that resist China’s debt diplomacy; eliminate funding to partners engaging Chinese entities; focus Bangkok Regional Development Mission Asia on counter-China cross-border initiatives.
Undo plan
1) Rescind aid blacklists that punish development partners solely for commercial engagement with Chinese firms without corruption/security findings.
2) Restore poverty-reduction and humanitarian criteria alongside strategic competition tools.
3) Separate legitimate infrastructure alternatives from politicized vetoes on climate/energy projects.
4) Publish transparent country strategies with congressional notification.
5) Verify: IG review that aid denials cite statutory national-security bases, not ideology alone.