Summary
China’s state media praised Trump’s decision to cut funding for Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), calling them “propaganda” outlets.
The move put 1,300 VOA staff on leave and drew criticism from press freedom advocates, who warn it benefits authoritarian regimes.
VOA and RFA have long reported on human rights abuses in China, North Korea, and other restricted regions.
RFA’s CEO condemned the cuts as a “reward to dictators,” while the Czech Republic has asked the EU for support to keep Radio Free Europe running.
Fellow authoritarians need to help each other.
it’s called class solidarity and the elites have it
What do you think VoA even is?
state sponsored propaganda established to erode all communist ideas in order to erode authoritarian communism (along the way propping up classic fascism, a side mission of creating VoA). the problem is that VoA wasn’t authoritarian enough for the new american government’s fascist stance. not enough people are realizing the dissolution of VoA is not something for us anti-authoritarians to celebrate because what’s coming to replace it will be much worse
Pretty sure they’re gonna replace it with some privatized bullshit, which will be “worse” but also way less effective because it’ll be cost-cut to shit.
Psst, this is good actually. Even if he’s doing it for the wrong reasons, disrupting CIA operations is a net win.
Pretty crazy the US is dismantling it’s apparatus for controlling the world by itself. The Soviet Union could only dream of this month.
A new world order is being installed in which Sociopathic Oligarchs run the world, instead of nations, and governments do their bidding.
And yet there are so few of them… and 8 billion of us.
Why should we let them rule us?
Of course China and Russia is celebrating this. They simply don’t like radio stations that tell their subjects the truth (Well, at least a kind of truth that is closer to reality than their own media).
…it’s an American propaganda outlet
According to who?
Previously, the CIA themselves.
“The Committee for a Free Asia’ in 1951, sanctioned by the National Security Council and with the knowledge of Congressional Oversight Committees, supported by covert indirect CIA funding, the Committee had been created to help find ways to contain and expand private U.S. contact and communication with people of Asia following the establishment of Communist regimes in China and North Korea. The emphasis was on a private instrumentality that would be privately governed and have the freedom and flexibility to do things the government would like to see done but which it chose not to do or could not do directly.”
"The question has been asked: ‘Why a Radio Free Asia?’ It is proposed to answer that question in terms of our objectives in the Far East and the effectiveness of radio in accomplishing them … Apart from its covert propaganda usefulness to the United States, RFA proposes to speak to Asia in the vernacular of Asia and about the things with which Asians are most concerned. It proposes to assist and encourage Asians in fighting Communism and establishing or recovering their dependence by spreading the truth in Asia about Asians.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/cia-and-committee-free-asia-under-project-dtpillar
