US to spend nearly half a billion more to counter China’s global influence, including on Dalai Lama successor plan

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(TibetanReview.net, Aug01’26) – The United States is preparing to ramp up funding by hundreds of millions of dollars more for programs designed to counter China’s growing influence around the world, including against its Dalai Lama successor meddling plan, reported the AP Jul 28. This comes after President Donald Trump had earlier put a halt to many of those initiatives last year during a flurry of budget and personnel cuts under his now largely defunct DOGE campaign.

The State Department is considering spending nearly half a billion dollars more on programs aimed at China throughout the Western Hemisphere, Africa and Asia, the report said, citing an internal State Department document.

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