One China expert told Newsweek that the USAID funding freeze had handed an "enormous gift" to Beijing's push to influence the Global South. Meanwhile, one Kremlin propagandist has said on Russian television that Moscow could exploit the gap left by USAID and project geopolitical power with a similar program.

If federal agencies were chocolate bars, Elon Musk is a kid in a candy store. The world’s richest man can’t keep his hands off the U.S. government, despite not being an elected official. In his current grab for power,