China rises and rises, yet still gets foreign aid ?

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China rises and rises, yet still gets foreign aid

BEIJING —
By GILLIAN WONG - AP
updated 9/25/2010 8:34:18 PM ET


China spent tens of billions of dollars on a dazzling 2008 Olympics.
It has sent astronauts into space.
It recently became the world's second largest economy.

Yet it gets more than $2.5 billion a year in foreign government aid —
and taxpayers and lawmakers in donor countries are increasingly asking why.



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