THE QUESTION.
140 million euros. Here is the amount that France paid to China in 2020 as official development assistance (ODA). This sum places it in ninth place among the 30 main recipients of bilateral ODA from France, according to a report appended to the 2022 finance bill. The Middle Kingdom is thus only a few steps from Somalia (343 million euros), Morocco (312 million) and India (230 million). In total last year, France distributed 12.4 billion euros to all ODA recipients, or 0.53% of gross national income (GNI), "
retaining its fifth rank among international aid donors
, ”according to the government.
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This situation is not to everyone's liking.
“
The special rapporteur [Marc Le Fur, deputy for Les Républicains des Côtes-d'Armor] therefore recommends that the OECD's development assistance committee modify the status of China, which is on the way to becoming the world's leading power. and yet still a beneficiary of development aid
”, underlines the said report.
Would it be possible to follow Marc Le Fur's recommendation and suspend this aid to China?
CHECKS
.
And let's first draw the outlines
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