{"id":36746,"date":"2026-02-18T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/02\/18\/radio-free-asia-says-it-resumes-broadcast\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:27:00","slug":"radio-free-asia-says-it-resumes-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/02\/18\/radio-free-asia-says-it-resumes-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Free Asia says it resumes broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Free Asia has resumed broadcasts to people in China, its CEO said on Tuesday, after Trump administration cuts last year largely forced the U.S.-funded outlet to cease operations.<br \/>RFA and its sister outlets, including Voice of America, for years had been financed with funding approved by the U.S. Congress and overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, or USAGM.<br \/>Last year Kari Lake, a former news anchor appointed by President Donald Trump as acting CEO of USAGM, terminated their grants, alleging waste of taxpayer money and anti-Trump bias.<br \/>Critics decried the move, which led to mass layoffs, as ceding ground to China and other U.S. adversaries.<br \/>She said the ability to restart the broadcasts was &#8220;due to private contracting with transmission services&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Free Asia has resumed broadcasts to people in China, its CEO said on Tuesday, after Trump administration cuts last year largely forced the U.S.-funded outlet to cease operations.RFA and its sister outlets, including Voice of America, for years had been financed with funding approved by the U.S. Congress and overseen by the U.S. Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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