Russia is set to be the leading recipient of a vast new foreign aid department being launched by China – a country to which Britain gives tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash. The communist superstate has already doled out a staggering £215 billion over the past five years in aid and loans. China also gave £195 million to North Korea during the same period, according to a 2017 AidData report called Aid: China and Growth. China is intensely secretive about where it sends its foreign aid. A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘The UK ended its traditional bilateral aid programmes with China in March 2011.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2018 22:06 UTC