Trewcake du Myanmar: China and others enter the help ditch left by Trump Cuts | Myanmar

While the help of China, Russia, India and the United Kingdom are starting to flow to Myanmar, there is a visible gap in the world’s world’s world support in the world: the United States.

The powerful earthquake of all 7.7 coarse that struck the center of Myanmar on Friday caused a general destruction, flattening the expanses of the country’s second city, Mandalay, and even a block of Tower in the Thai capital, Bangkok, more than 600 miles (1,000 km).

The real image of the crisis has not yet been entirely revealed, given limited access to a nation that has been accumulated by a conflict from a military coup in 2021. The number of deaths, now to 1,700, should increase.

Despite the logistical challenges, some countries acted quickly. But Donald Trump was accused of exploding the United States’s ability to respond to international disasters by cuts to foreign aid programs.

China sent a team of rescuers of 82 people to the country on Saturday. On Sunday, the Xinhua press agency managed by the State said that a research and rescue team of 118 members had also arrived. The team included earthquake experts, medical workers, workers in field hospitals and rescue dogs.

The Chinese government said on Monday that it had sent a first batch of rescue supplies worth 100 million yuan ($ 13.78 million) to Myanmar, including tents, covers and first aid kits, reported the official Xinhua news agency.

Hong Kong assigned HK $ 30 million ($ 3.8 million) for emergency support support, and sent a team of 51 people, with two dog research and rescue dogs, including life detectors. Russia’s emergency and health ministries said they had managed 120 rescuers, a medical team and myanmar supplies. And a help flight from India landed in Myanmar on Saturday, with four other planes and two naval ships on the way, officials said.

The United Kingdom has promised 10 million pounds sterling ($ 12.9 million) in humanitarian aid, local partners funded in the United Kingdom already mobilizing on the ground. The EU has promised 2.5 million euros ($ 2.7 million) in initial emergency rescue.

From Southeast Asia, Indonesia will deploy logistics aid from Monday, including a Navire ship and several helicopters. The Philippines and Vietnam send teams of doctors.

But the United States, once among the largest foreign aid suppliers, have been slow to act, with a modest commitment of $ 2 million announced on Sunday. “It’s really bad, and we will help you. We have already talked to the country,” Donald Trump told journalists on Friday, describing the earthquake as “terrible”.

The United States Embassy in Myanmar added on Sunday in a statement that “an emergency team from USAID moves to Myanmar to identify the most urgent needs of people, including emergency shelter, food, medical needs and water access”.

But Trump’s evision in infrastructure and financing for American foreign aid means that the USAID USAID evaluation team should only arrive in Myanmar on Wednesday, almost a week after the disaster, according to a New York Times report.

We also did not know what help would be sent, nor how all money would be used, since the systems necessary to distribute aid had been dismantled, said Phil Robertson, director of human and work rights defenders in Asia. “Maybe the embassy can do so, but they have none of the specialists (from USAID).”

The main team specialists (DART), which are generally deployed as the first stakeholders in disasters worldwide, are the main specialists in the USAID. These teams will probably disappear when USAID is dismantled.

Robertson said the United States had gone from the “leader” to “Laggard”.

An American rescue team arrived in Thailand on Sunday to help research efforts on the site of a building that collapsed in the capital, Bangkok.

Offering help to the neighboring Myanmar, which is seized by the conflict, will be much more difficult. Rights defense groups have warned that aid should be carefully channeled in the country through community groups, not the military junta, which has a history of armaments aid.

“Donald Trump has completely exploded the American government’s ability to respond to international disasters. He unilaterally dismantled the pre -eminent aid agency,” said Robertson.

“It is quite suitable for China and Russia to send their teams faster than the United States. Because this is the new reality … This is something that we will see many and many times in the years to come, whenever there is a disaster. ”

The United States had been “disarmed” compared to its soft power, he added.

Friday, a panel of three judges raised the injunction blocking the “Department of Elon Musk” Department of Elon Musk (DOGE) to close the USAID, almost at the same time when the Trump administration informed the Congress of the plans to completely eliminate the Agency, despite the repression of certain members of the Congress, who say that their permission is necessary first.

USAID staff worldwide have received dismissal notices in force in July or September which, if they were promulgated, would leave a team of skeleton assistance operating under the banner of the United States Department of State.

The State Department, Nor a Coordination Office of USAID-State, responded to a request for comments.

Following a natural disaster, the rapid deployment of aid was essential, humanitarian organizations said such as borders without borders.

International organizations such as the World Health Organization – from which the United States recently withdrew – have mobilized its logistics center in Dubai to prepare the supplies of injuries in trauma and trigger its emergency management response. The agency is urgently looking for $ 8 million to save lives and prevent disease epidemics over the next 30 days.

The United Nations OCHA humanitarian agency also mobilizes emergency intervention efforts, alongside its partner organizations.

“A serious shortage of medical supplies hinders response efforts, including trauma kits, blood bags, anesthetics, assistance devices, essential drugs and tents for health workers,” OCHA said in a statement on Saturday.