The New Food Powers: How China and Russia Are Filling America’s Retreat

In January 2025, when the Trump administration froze nearly all foreign aid, more than 1,000 emergency communal kitchens in Sudan shut down within weeks. Half a million displaced people lost access to clean water. Famine conditions that had been held at bay collapsed into crisis.

Within months, Russian grain ships arrived in African ports and Chinese agricultural delegations expanded across the continent. Decisions made in Washington marked the end of seven decades of American dominance in humanitarian food assistance and the rise of two powers with fundamentally different models.For the first time since World War II, the United States ceded The post The New Food Powers: How China and Russia Are Filling America’s Retreat appeared first on War on the Rocks .