RFA台長：終止資助RFA是中共的福音
文/ RFA陳美華
美國自由亞洲電台（RFA）於美東時間週六（3月15日）收到美國全球媒體總署（USAGM）的通知，正式終止對RFA及其合作媒體網絡的聯邦資助。
美國總統特朗普於週五深夜簽署行政命令，要求削減美國全球媒體總署（USAGM）內「非法律規定的部門」，該機構負責資助RFA及其他獨立的全球新聞機構。美國國會向USAGM撥款，而該機構再將資金分配給受資助的新聞媒體。
RFA台長Bay Fang週六發表聲明表示：「終止對RFA的資助是對包括中共在內的獨裁者和暴君的獎勵，他們最希望的就是他們的影響力在資訊領域不受控制。RFA在幫助美國決策者瞭解中國和其他封閉國家所發生的現實方面一直扮演著奠基性的角色，為沒有透明度和問責性的地方帶來了透明度和問責性。RFA在新疆的突破性報導，促使第一屆特朗普政府對中國政府作出種族滅絕宣佈。
今天的通知不僅剝奪了近6000萬人的權利，他們每週都通過RFA的報導瞭解真相，而且還犧牲了我們自己的利益，使美國的對手受益。我們計劃挑戰這個短視的命令，並採取一切必要手段，繼續我們的工作，保護我們勇敢的記者。」
以下是英文聲明：
RFA President: RFA’s cancellation a boon to the Chinese Communist Party
2025.03.15
WASHINGTON – Radio Free Asia (RFA) was informed today by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) that its federal grant agreement, which makes possible RFA’s operations in Asia and globally, has been terminated. RFA’s President and CEO Bay Fang issued the following statement:
The termination of RFA’s grant is a reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked in the information space. RFA has been foundational in helping U.S. policymakers understand the reality of what’s happening in China and other closed countries, bringing transparency and accountability where there is none. RFA’s breakthrough reporting in Xinjiang led the first Trump Administration to make its declaration of genocide against the Chinese government.
Today’s notice not only disenfranchises the nearly 60 million people who turn to RFA’s reporting on a weekly basis to learn the truth, but it also benefits America’s adversaries at our own expense. We plan to challenge this short-sighted order and pursue whatever means necessary to continue our work and protect our courageous journalists.
