Odaily Planet Daily News According to Xinhua News Agency, the Trump administration in the United States announced on the 1st that it will officially close the United States Agency for International Development, which has been in operation for nearly 64 years. U.S. Secretary of State Rubio issued a statement that the United States Agency for International Development will officially cease its foreign aid missions starting on the 1st, and some remaining projects that align with the Trump administration's policies will be transferred to the U.S. State Department for implementation. The statement said that the United States Agency for International Development has spent more than $715 billion over the decades, creating a "global non-governmental organization industrial complex" with American taxpayers' money. However, since the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, its work has been "ineffective... (development goals in aid-receiving areas) are rarely achieved, unstable situations often worsen, and anti-American sentiment continues to rise."