Women's Rights Without Frontiers president — VOA is the leading international broadcaster in China

CUSIB’s Reggie Littlejohn, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers president, commented on Voice of America’s effectiveness in China. I believe that the VOA Mandarin Service has been singled out for the chopping block precisely because of its effectiveness – it has been the leading international broadcaster into China for nearly 70 years and has an enormous following […]

Secretary Clinton: U.S. is losing the information war

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — So we are in an information war. And we are losing that war. I’ll be very blunt in my assessment. Al-Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English-language and multi-language television network. The Russians have opened up an English-language network. I’ve seen it in a few […]

Don't silence Voice of America to China

The Washington Times has published an op-ed by CUSIB’s Ted Lipien, Free Media Online president, urging Congress to stop the Broadcasting Board of Governors from silencing the Voice of America radio to China. A Chinese free labor union leader like Poland’s Walesa could be declared expendable by the BBG, which manages U.S. international broadcasting operations, […]

Senator Lugar: Another U.S. Deficit -China and America- Public Diplomacy in the Age of the Internet

From Senator Lugar’s website: On February 15, 2011, Senator Dick Lugar released a report prepared by the minority staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In his letter accompanying the report, Senator Lugar wrote: Official U.S. interest in China for political, economic and strategic reasons has been part of our foreign policy for decades. […]