“Ummm, don’t you like eating tacos???? Interesting how you like that but don’t like fifteen million people flooding the border in less than four years, a bit hypocritical much??”
Secretly funding brain dreaded NIMBY’s frivolous lawsuits is not really the soft power that USAID was funding. There is at least strategic synergy with that China is doing here. What strategic benefit is there to funding gender queer operas in Chile?