Beijing (AP) – The recent decision by US President Donald TrumpVoice of AmericaAnd other media managed by the United States government can be welcome from news for the Communist Party to the power of China.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry has refrained from commentingTrump’s decisionTuesday but took the opportunity to criticize the points of sale.
“I do not comment on American domestic policy changes,” said Mao Ning on this subject. “But as for the media you mentioned, their bad files in reports on China are no secret.”
The Trump administration put almost all the staff of Voice of America on leave last weekend and ended Radio Free Asia grants and other media with a program of similar news.
Radio Free Asia has a vast Chinese language service and frequently renders reports on human rights issues, including the detention of activists and the repression of ethnic groups in Xinjiang and Tibet. The government refutes the allegations of abuse.
Voice of America, also known as VOA, has a Chinese language website which often publishes stories not covered by the Chinese media, which is controlled by the state. China ranks 172 out of 180 in journalists Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
The Global Times, a state tabloid, criticized Voice of America at length in an editorial this week.
“The so-called flagship of freedom, VOA, has now been thrown by his own government as a dirty cloth,” he said.
Beyond China, the former Prime Minister of CambodiaHun SenWho ruled his country for almost four decades as an autocrat, praised Trump’s decision.
“This is a major contribution to the elimination of false news, disinformation, lies, distortions, incentives and chaos worldwide from the propaganda machine that President Trump ceased to finance,” he said in a statement on Monday.
Clayton Weimers, Executive Director of the United States of the Defense Group for Journalists Without Borders, said that authoritarian regimes are “the biggest winners” of Trump’s evisceration of the American agency for the world media.
“Many of them, like China, are looking forward to filling the void left by the American management in media freedom with their own propaganda,” said Weimers.
In Washington, representative Raja Krishnamoorthhi, the best democrat of the Restricted Committee of the Chamber on strategic competition with the Communist Party of Chinse, said that the movements against VOA and other broadcasters “would seriously weaken our ability to compete” with the Chinese power party and “finally make us less sure”.
The media “provides real reports to millions living under authoritarian regimes, in the process of distortion of the CCP”, and allowing Chinese to “question the propaganda and the assault of the CCC towards the United States and our allies and partners”, said Krishnamoorthi.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
