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highplainsdem

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Tue Mar 18, 2025, 08:08 AM Mar 18

Chinese state media celebrates Trump's cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia

Source: The Guardian

Chinese state media has reacted gleefully to the Trump administration’s decision to slash government funding to media organisations such as Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA).

The Global Times, a daily English-language tabloid and Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, celebrated the cuts to the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees broadcasters such as VOA and RFA.

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“From smearing human rights in China’s Xinjiang … to hyping up disputes in the South China Sea … from fabricating the so-called China virus narrative to promoting the claim of China’s ‘overcapacity’, almost every malicious falsehood about China has VOA’s fingerprints all over it,” the editorial said.

The Beijing Daily, a newspaper run by the Chinese Communist party (CCP), also published a column commending the cuts.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/18/chinese-state-media-celebrates-trumps-cuts-to-voice-of-america-and-radio-free-asia

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Chinese state media celebrates Trump's cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 18 OP
Followed by a tiny little fist pump in The White House. n/t Harker Mar 18 #1
Tiny hands make for tiny fist pumps. riversedge Mar 18 #4
And hands to match his mind. Harker Mar 18 #5
Too bad ...Europe is picking up the tab!! Go F yourself! PortTack Mar 18 #2
VOA used Collins Radio equipment IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 18 #3

IrishBubbaLiberal

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3. VOA used Collins Radio equipment
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:59 AM
Mar 18

VOA was Collins equipment

Collins Radio….then Rockwell International….

Now currently part of Raytheon.


Collins…THE NSA’s communications contractor 😎🥸

BEFORE anyone even knew the NSA existed

No Such Agency NSA 🥸

See
https://collinsradio.org/821A/

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