Michael Schiffer, of the Centre for American Progress, Scalare Advisors and a former USAID employee, examines how the US-China strategic competition is reshaping development assistance as a domain of geopolitical contest. He has written about this in a chapter of the EBA’s anthology “China as a Global Development Actor: Transforming the International Aid Landscape”.
In the text, Michael Schiffer analyses how the dismantling of USAID, combined with China’s expanding ‘Belt and Road’ initiative, is transforming the landscape of international development cooperation. He notes that it is strategically crucial for Sweden to demonstrate that transparent and accountable development partnerships yield better results in the long term.