The US has been accused of not doing enough to help Myanmar due to the shuttering of its humanitarian aid agency.

As U.S. experts head to Myanmar to assist in recovery from the Southeast Asia earthquake, teams from China are filling the void.

Democratic senators said in a letter that the administration was failing its first test of humanitarian aid as China and Russia send teams to help.

We have the capacity to save lives, and the choice has been not to use it,” said the former head of the agency's Myanmar mission.

While China, Russia and other nations have rushed emergency response teams to the devastated country, the U.S., once a leader in foreign aid, has been slow to act.

As the road shook beneath him, Ko Zeyer sped past crumbled buildings, buckled roads and gaping sinkholes toward his hometown of Sagaing, the epicenter of the most powerful earthquake to hit Myanmar in a century.

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As quake survivors dig through the rubble for loved ones with their bare hands, the military bombs villages and seeks diplomatic openings In the heartbreak of disaster, Myanmar's hated junta has been handed a lifeline.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, flattening skyscrapers and leaving more than 1,000 people dead from Myanmar to Thailand.