Why Does The U.S. Still Give Millions Of Dollars In Aid To China

Why Does The U.S. Still Give Millions Of Dollars In Aid To China
Wang Yang, China's vice premier, left, and Jacob 'Jack' Lew, U.S. treasury secretary, attend a chief executive officer roundtable with U.S. and Chinese business leaders during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 11, 2013. The U.S. and China are meeting this week to find ways to balance a wider flow of investment and goods as their central banks try to prevent excessive risk-taking from derailing the world's biggest economies. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Wang Yang, China's vice premier, left, and Jacob 'Jack' Lew, U.S. treasury secretary, attend a chief executive officer roundtable with U.S. and Chinese business leaders during the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 11, 2013. The U.S. and China are meeting this week to find ways to balance a wider flow of investment and goods as their central banks try to prevent excessive risk-taking from derailing the world's biggest economies. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The United States provided $28.3 million in foreign assistance and funding programs to China via USAID and the State Department in 2012, according to a May report from

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