The British government has decided to cut its aid to China by 95 percent, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday. In a written statement to Parliament, Raab said he had reduced the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) to China by 95 percent to just £0.9 million ($1.25 million). The remaining budget will fund programmes on open societies and human rights, he said. The reduction was part of the UK’s cuts to its international aid budget announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak last November. Sunak said that the “domestic fiscal emergency” caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic meant he had to cut international aid from 0.7 percent of the UK’s national income to 0.5 percent. Raab said the new budget allocation is intended to ensure the UK’s spending on international aid “brings maximum strategic coherence, impact, and value for taxpayers’ money.” He said the UK …