 Meanwhile, Communist China continues to threaten global economic security through unfair, even illegal trade practices and threatens regional security with escalating aggressive actions against the Philippines and Taiwan. It is therefore bewildering, despite that behavior, why and how the CCP still receives over a billion dollars annually from World Bank commitments. Indeed, the global economic and security situation has deteriorated so dramatically during the three and a half years of the Biden administration that I can't help but ask what have they been doing that could account for this?