President Trump’s restrictions on foreign aid and targeting of a key agency funding programs around the world may be offering an opening to China.

The groups and the Trump administration are fighting in court while billions of dollars in foreign aid remain in limbo.

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush administration. He is a Professor at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University and Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs.