#radio-free-asia

#radio-free-asia

In contacting RFA, Mr. Li turned to one of the last reliable channels for on-the-ground, uncensored news in China. Since it was established in 1996 by the U.S. government in response to China's massacre of pro-democracy student protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, RFA has reported from regions in Asia hostile to independent journalism, filling an important gap where free press outlets cannot exist.

The so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag, the Global Times editorial declared.

Chinese state media are celebrating the U.S. government's drastic budget cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, which have long criticized human rights abuses in China.