Beijing – The recent movement of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to make cuts in Voice of America And other means administered by the United States government can be good news for the ruler Communist Party of China.
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs refrained from commenting on Trump’s decision On Tuesday, but took the opportunity to criticize the points of sale.
“I will not comment on the changes in the internal policy of the United States.” None said when asked about it. “But as for the media he mentioned, his bad records when informing about China are not a secret.”
The Trump administration put almost all the staff of Voice of America licensed last weekend and ended with subsidies to Radio Free Asia and other media with a similar news program.
Radio Free Asia has extensive service in Chinese and often informs about human rights issues, including the arrest of activists and the repression of ethnic groups in Xinjiang and Tibet. The Government refutes the accusations of abuse.
Voice of America, also known as VOA, has a website in the Chinese language that often publishes stories not covered by the Chinese media, which is controlled by the State. China ranks 172 of 180 in the reporters without borders Press Freedom Index.
The Global Times, a state -owned tabloid, criticized Voice of America in an editorial this week.
“The so -called Beacon of Freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government as a dirty cloth,” he said.
Beyond China, former Cambodian Prime Minister She lateHe ruled his country for about four decades as a autocrat, welcomed Trump’s movement.
“This is an important contribution to eliminate false news, misinformation, lies, distortions, incitement and chaos worldwide from the propaganda machine that President Trump has stopped financing,” said Monday in a written statement.
Clayton Weimers, executive director of the USA.
“Many of them, as China, hope to fill the void left by American leadership in the freedom of the media with their own propaganda,” Weimers said.
In Washington, the representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the main democrat of the Select Committee of the Chamber on the strategic competition with the Communist Party of Chinse, said that the movements against VOA and other broadcasters “would severely weaken our ability to compete” with the ruling party of China and “finally would make us less safe.”
The media “provide real reports to millions that live under authoritarian regimes, counteract the distortion of the PCCH”, and allow the Chinese “to question the propaganda of the PCCH and the aggression towards the United States and our allies and partners,” said Krishnamoorthi.
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Wu reported from Bangkok. Associated Press Nicholas Riccardi writer in Denver and Didi Tang in Washington contributed to this report
