The US Government and China both compete in providing aid to low income nations.
The benefit to helping low-income nations is they get a “foot in the door” for future development.
USAID is (was) the US arm.
But China is directly competing – AND WINNING in this area.
Africa for example, China has us beat in providing similar aid as USAID does.
And we’ll lose because now by shutting USAID down, China gets it all because they were already winning.
https://philiproessler.net/research/competing-aid-regimes/