The Trump administration's recent cuts to government funding for media organizations, including Radio Free Asia and Voice of America, have prompted a celebrating response from Chinese state media. The Global Times criticized VOA for its portrayal of China, alleging it spreads falsehoods and radical narratives. Trump's order to gut the US Agency for Global Media is seen as a move that favors the Chinese Communist Party by limiting dissenting media voices. Both state media and RFA's leadership express concerns about the implications for truth in journalism and the empowerment of authoritarian regimes.
The schadenfreude comes after US president Donald Trump signed an order gutting USAGM and instructing it to reduce its operations to the bare minimum mandated by the law.
Almost every malicious falsehood about China has VOA's fingerprints all over it, the editorial said.
The attempt to close down RFA was a reward to dictators and despots, its president, Bay Fang, said, including the Chinese Communist party.
Today's notice not only disenfranchises the nearly 60 million people who turn to RFA's reporting to learn the truth, but it also benefits America's adversaries.
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