One Year After Haiyan: Time to Recalibrate Humanitarianism?

... and the Haiyan case is a vivid example of aid politicization: the United States helped financially, and backed their support with serious military presence (including 13,000 troops, warships, and an aircraft carrier with its strike group). This is understandable, since the Philippines is a US military ally in the region. On the other hand, China, involved in a territorial dispute with the Philippines over islands in the South China Sea, initially agreed to send only $100 000 and raised the amount to $2 million only later ...