Reporting on China's move to provide global aid as U.S. pulls out
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🗓️ 4 April 2026
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| 0:29.1 | our surveys before. Yes, that means you. Okay, on to today's episode. This past year, |
| 0:36.0 | NPR Global Health and Development correspondent, |
| 0:37.9 | Fatma Tanis, has been digging into the global impact of billions of dollars of U.S. aid |
| 0:42.9 | being cut from programs around the world. A lot of the headlines in the U.S. focused on |
| 0:48.2 | Washington, the chaos, the ideology, the politics. So Fatma went to Uganda last September |
| 0:53.6 | to find out what it looked like on the ground. |
| 0:56.6 | What she found was something unexpected, not anger, but something harder to explain. |
| 1:01.5 | I really got the sense of how the U.S. is just viewed as this, like, major superpower. |
| 1:10.6 | I remember one community elder |
| 1:13.0 | who kept referring to Donald Trump |
| 1:16.6 | as Father Trump |
| 1:18.2 | when he was talking about, you know, the aid cuts. |
| 1:21.3 | Fatma was struck by the description. |
| 1:23.6 | And I asked him, why do you, |
| 1:25.6 | why are you calling him father? |
| 1:27.0 | And he said, well, he's the provider. |
| 1:30.6 | Father Trump, that phrase, equal parts reverence and bewilderment, |
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