Newsweek reported on Monday that China had been building infrastructure projects across the Pacific; the publication didn’t shy away from suggesting the Chinese outposts could be used in a war with the United States.

The report came from Sinopsis, a China-focused research project out of Czech Republic under the Czech group AcaMedia, which gets its funding, in part from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a nonprofit that had received taxpayer support through Congress until its account was frozen after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency conducted an audit.

By mid-March, however, the State Department lifted its restrictions on NED, restoring “access to congressionally appropriated funds that had been unavailable since late January.”

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