Chinese state media hails Trump cuts to Voice of America happymamay

The Chinese government media welcomed the move to Donald Trump to reduce the general financing of the news means America’s voice And Frey Asia Radio, which has long been informed of authoritarian regimes.

The decision is affected by thousands of employees – some of them 1,300 employees were placed on a paid vacation at Voice of America (VOA) Alone since the executive order on Friday.

Critics described this step as a setback for democracy, but the Global Times in Beijing in Beijing, condemned VOA because of its “horrific record” in reporting China and said it “was now ignored by its government like a dirty rag.”

The White House defended this step, saying that it “will ensure that taxpayers are not on a hook for radical propaganda.”

Trump’s USA -USA’s discounts, supported by Congress, targets the affected news outlets, such as VOA, Radio Free Asia (RFA) and free radio Europe.

They have received praise and international recognition of their reports in places where the freedom of the press is largely or not present, from China and Cambodia to Russia and North Korea.

Although the authorities in some of these countries prevent broadcasting – for example, can be banned in China – people can listen to them on short wave radio, or circumvent the restrictions via VPNS.

RFA often reported the human rights campaign in Cambodia, which praised the former authoritarian ruler Hun Sen of this cut as a “major contribution to eliminating fake news.”

It was also among the first news media report on China’s detention network in Xinjiang, where the authorities are accused of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Ouigor without trial. Beijing denies these allegations, saying that people are very well brought to “re -education camps” that fight “terrorism and religious extremism.” Voa reports on the North Korean fugitives and covering up the Chinese Communist Party from Covid were awarded.

Voa, a radio port, which is also broadcast in Mandarin, was recognized last year because of his pods on rare protests in 2022 in China against Kovid Kocada.

But the global times in China welcomed the wounds, describing Voa as a “lie factory”.

“With the start of more Americans to penetrate their information, it will eventually become a laughing stock,” she said in an editorial article published on Monday.

Hu XIJIN, who was the former editor of Global Times, wrote: “Voice of America was paralyzed! And also Radio Free Asia, who was evil in China. This is great news.”

“It was easy to predict.” She was previously working by BBC World Service.

“The elimination of VOA, of course, allows channels that are the opposite of accurate and balanced reports to flourish,” she told the BBC.

The National Press Club, a leading representative group for American journalists, said that the matter “undermines America’s long -term commitment to free and independent press.”

Voa was established during World War II to combat Nazi propaganda, Voa reached about 360 million people per week in about 50 languages. Over the years, it was broadcast in China, North Korea, Communist Cuba and the former Soviet Union. It was also a useful tool for many Chinese to learn English.

“The opponents of America, such as Iran, China, and Russia, are filled with billions of dollars in creating false accounts to discredit the United States.”

Mrs. Parabutry, who is from Indonesia but her headquarters in Washington, DC, joined VOA for the first time in 2018, but her visa was terminated at the end of the Trump administration.

In 2023 she joined because she wanted to be part of an organization “supports unbiased and struggling reports free from the impact of the government.”

The recent discounts left it, “I felt betrayed by the idea I had about freedom of the press [in the US]”.

She is also interested in colleagues who may now have to return to hostile local countries, as they can be persecuted because of their journalist.

At the same time, and The Czech Republic appealed to the European Union To intervene so that it can keep the Europe radio free to continue. Reports in 27 languages ​​from 23 countries, reaching more than 47 million people every week.

“The organization was planning to challenge the request. He said that cutting financing for these ports is “a reward for dictators and tyranny, including the Chinese Communist Party, who do not want something better than their impact has not been verified in the information space.”

RFA started in 1996 and reaches nearly 60 million people per week in China, Myanmar, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. In China, it also broadcasts in minorities such as Tibet and Ouigor, regardless of English and mandarin.

“[Trump’s order] Mr. Fang indicated that only 60 million people resort to RFA reports on a weekly basis to learn the truth, but also benefit America’s opponents on our own account.

While the Chinese government media celebrated the wounds, it is difficult to know what the Chinese feel about this, given that the Internet is very controlled.

Outside China, those who listened to Voa and RFA over the years seem to be disappointed and anxious.

“If we look back to history, then countless exiles, rebels, intellectuals, and ordinary people continued in the dark due to Voa and RFA voices, and saw hope in fear because of their reports,” Du Wayne, a Chinese dissident living in Belgium, wrote on X.

“If the free world chooses silence, the dictator will become the only echo in the world.”