Voice of America and Radio Free Europe broadcast to the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe. They did great work. But since the Cold War ended, both have been infiltrated by the enemies of America - even by jihadis!
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The Trump administration announced on Friday that the United States Agency for Global Media, the parent entity of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, would be discontinued.
An executive order from the White House listed the U.S. Agency for Global Media as one of seven government agencies that the President has determined are unnecessary.
That’s great news. Trump is delivering on his promises as no President in our lifetime ever has!
He’s serious about making America great again, and he’s going to accomplish just that.
The tragedy is that there are so many brainwashed useful idiots out there who still think he’s Hitler, protesting their own salvation.
The great people who ran the Voice of America during the Cold War flew me from London to their HQ in Munich to fill them in on the German terrorist organizations. In those days the broadcasts were an asset to the West - which was then deservedly called “the free world”. Not any more.
Sasha Gong, former director of the Chinese branch of the Voice of America, writes at American Greatness:
"One thing is clear—Voice of America was compromised at the highest levels, and the consequences were devastating to America."
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He reports a disgraceful illustrative example from the time of Obama’s presidency:
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order to downsize the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), Kari Lake, a senior advisor at the agency, released a statement exposing alarming findings: “Massive national security violations, including spies and terrorists.” The White House also published an article titled “Voice of Radical America”, highlighting a particularly egregious case.
“In May 2019, Voice of America fired reporters for their roles in canceling a broadcast midstream after pressure from the Chinese government.”
I was at the heart of that incident.
When I joined Voice of America (VOA) in 2011, I was stunned by the extent of Chinese government influence within the organization. This wasn’t just about self-censorship; it was an active effort to serve Beijing’s interests. VOA management provided free labor to Chinese state-controlled TV stations and imposed strict bans on reporting topics deemed “sensitive” by Beijing—including Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Falun Gong movement.
VOA’s senior executives frequently traveled to China, attending state-sponsored events and meeting with Chinese embassy officials in Washington, D.C. These meetings weren’t casual diplomatic exchanges; they involved soliciting feedback on VOA’s programming.
When I became director of the China Branch, I resisted these practices. I canceled programs that prioritized Chinese government interests over American public service. My supervisors bypassed me, communicating directly with Chinese officials in Beijing and at the embassy. This only emboldened the Chinese government.
In April 2017, VOA’s Mandarin Service scheduled a landmark live interview with a Chinese billionaire-turned-whistleblower, a figure deeply entangled with China’s state security apparatus. The VOA leadership initially celebrated the scoop, which was set to air on April 19—one hour on satellite TV and two additional hours on Facebook.
On April 17, two days before the scheduled broadcast, the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned VOA’s Beijing correspondent and demanded the interview be canceled, calling it an “interference in China’s affairs” and threatening severe retaliation.
The following day, Chinese Embassy officials in Washington launched a relentless pressure campaign, flooding VOA management with phone calls demanding compliance. Instead of standing firm for journalistic independence, VOA management caved. After consulting with Chinese officials, VOA Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara personally called my team in New York and ordered us to cancel the broadcast.
I refused.
Realizing they couldn’t outright cancel the interview without facing backlash, management then suggested we avoid any discussion about Chinese state security—an absurd request, given that this was the crux of the whistleblower’s revelations. Notably, they never issued a formal order to the Mandarin Service, perhaps aware of how blatantly they were violating journalistic integrity.
On the morning of April 19, VOA’s production director confirmed that the full three-hour live broadcast would proceed. However, one hour and 15 minutes in, just as my co-host Fred Wang pressed the whistleblower on corruption within China’s state security, a VOA manager stormed into the office and ordered Robert Li, a veteran journalist overseeing Mandarin Service’s internet operations, to cut the feed.
It sounds like Kari Lake is really going to purge the entire thing. It’s high time - it had obviously become as deeply corrupt as every other part of our government.
I won’t be surprised if it turns out the CCP has had as much of a corrupting influence on the rest of the government as it had on this.
