US jostles with China in race for influence

THE Trump team is poised for a major foreign-policy announcement as soon as this week at the UN high-level General Assembly meetings. A new international aid strategy, under which funds would be distributed increasingly on political allegiance to Washington as opposed to humanitarian need, could reshape policy to the largest extent for decades, albeit with the risk of undermining US soft power.

The sweeping premise of the new Trump strategy is that several decad…