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China Gets More Airtime Around the World as Voice of America Signs Off

The Wall Street Journal · By Aruna Viswanatha, Alexandra Wexler, and Clarence Leong · last updated

For years, one of Indonesia’s most popular news channels hosted a weekly segment for the country’s Chinese diaspora that often featured reports in Mandarin from both the U.S.-government backed Voice of America and China’s state-run television.

Now, since the Trump administration moved to dismantle most of the U.S. Agency for Global Media in March, only the reports from Chinese state media show up.

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