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Timor-Leste Faces Aid Cuts: U.S. Assistance Was Always More About America Than Timor

Dan Mitchell

August 27, 2025

Opinion, World

DILI, East Timor — East Timor has served as an exemplar of United States foreign assistance in Asia for two decades. Billions of dollars of aid headlines and photo opportunities have framed an image of Washington “assisting” one of the globe’s newest democracies to get on its own two feet.Continue Reading

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