Chinese state media greets Trump cuts to the Voice of America star-news.press/wp

Chinese state media welcomed the transition of Donald Trump to reduce public funding for news Voice of America And Radio Free Asia, who have long reported to authoritarian regimes.

Decin guess thousands of employees – some 1,300 staff has been placed on paid leave to the Voice of America (VOA) alone from the executive order on Friday.

The critics called the move for democracy, but Beijing State List Global Times denied VOA for his “tracking record” in reporting on China and said “now rejected power like a dirty cloth.”

The White House defended the move, saying that it would “ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.”

Trump cuts target the American Greed Media Agency (USAGM), which support the Congress and fund affected news, such as VOA, Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Radio Free Europe.

They beat recognition and internationally recognition for their reporting in places where freedom of printing is difficult to diminish or non-existent, from China and Cambodia to Russia and North Korea.

Although the authorities in some of these countries are blocking emissions – the VOA, for example, is banned in China – people can listen to them on automatic wave radio or around VPNs.

RFA was often reported on the Class of Human Rights in Cambodia whose former authoritarian ruler Hun Sen is gilding a reduction as a “great contribution to the removal of false news”.

It was among the first news for reporting on the Chinese network of detention centers in Xinjiang, where the authorities are accused of the locking of hundreds of thousands of thousands of Muslim Uyghuras without trial. Beijing denies claims, saying that people willingly attend “re-education camps” that fight “terrorism and religious extremism.” VOA reporting on defectors from northern Korean defectors and alleged covering of the Chinese Fatality of the Chinese Communist Party won the awards.

VOA, primarily the radio output, which are also broadcast in Mandarini, was recognized last year for its podcast in rare protests 2022. in China against costy conclusions.

But the Chinese global times welcomed the cuts, inviting VOA a “lies factory”.

“The more Americans begin by piercing his informative Kakoni and see the real world and multidimensional cinema, demonizing the leadership of VOA will ultimately become laughter,” he said in the editorial posted on Monday.

HU Xijin, who was the main editor-in-chief of the global time, wrote: “The Voice of America is paralyzed! And so did the free Asia, which was enchanted for China. This is such a great news.”

Such answers “would be easy to predict,” said Valdy Baraputri, the Voa journalist who lost his job over the weekend. She was previously employed in the BBC World Service.

“Eliminating VOAs, of course, allows channels that are contrary to precise and balanced reporting for advancement,” she told BBC.

The National Stick Club, the leading representative group for American journalists, said the order “violates the long-term commitment of America to the free and independent ass.”

Founded during the Second World War, partly on the sum of Nazi propaganda, the VOA reaches about 360 million people per week to almost 50 languages. Over the years, they broadcast in China, North Korea, Communist Cuba and former Soviet Union. It was also a useful tool for many Chinese people to learn English.

The director Voa Michael Abramowitz said that the Trump Ordler scored VOA, and “American opponents, like Iran, China and Russia, they generate billions of dollars in the creation of false narratives for discrediting American countries.”

Mrs. Baraputri, who is from Indonesia, but based in Washington DC, first joined VOA 2018. years, but her visa was interrupted at the end of Trump’s first administration.

She joined 2023. because she wanted to be part of the organization to “support unbiased, factual reporting that was released from the influence of government.”

Recent cuts left her “feeling issued by the idea I had about freedom of the press (in the US)”.

He is also worried about colleagues who can now be forced to return to enemy parent countries, where they could be persecuted for their journalism.

Meanwhile, The Czech Republic complained about the European Union to intervene so that it is done on Ishy Free Europe. Reported to 27 languages ​​from 23 countries, reaching more than 47 million people every week.

The Executive Bay from the RFA Executive Bay told the statement that the organization plans to challenge the order. Cutting funding to these sales lists is “the award of dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like to do anything better than to reinforce in the information space,” he said.

RFA began in 1996. and almost 60 million people per week in China, Myanmar, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos reached. In China, it is also broadcast in minority languages ​​such as Tibetan and Uyghur, other than English and Mandarin.

“Trump Account) Not only not only 60 million people who do not turn into RFA reporting to learn the truth, but also benefits the American opponents at our expense,” G. Fang.

While Chinese state media celebrated cuts, it is difficult to know how Chinese people feel because their internet is difficult to censor.

Out of China, those who listened to Voa and RFA over the years seemed disappointed and worried.

“View of history, countless exiles, rebels, intellectuals, and ordinary people are in the dark, due to voices and RFA, and see the hope of its reports,” du Wen, a Chinese dissident in Belgium, wrote to X.

“If the free world decides to be silent, then the voice of the dictator will become the only echo in the world.”