China is “trying to replicate” specific USAID programs in Africa the Trump administration cut, according to the commander of U.S. Africa Command.

The Trump administration effectively gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development as a part of its governmentwide attempt to reduce the size of the federal government. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the State Department decided to cut “83% of the programs at USAID,” and folded the remaining programs into the department.