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The U.S. government is committed to providing nearly $110,000 in foreign aid to projects in Russia, and $240,000 to China, in 2023, despite surging tensions with Moscow and Beijing. According to the American state-run website foreignassistance.gov this money has already been committed, with much of it going to tiger conservation projects in the two countries. Relations between the U.S. and Russia nosedived following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, since which Washington has provided more than $43 billion in military aid to Kyiv. The U.S. has also clashed with China over Taiwan, human rights, trade and the South...
