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Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a
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-funded private
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news service that
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radio programs and publishes online news, information, and commentary for its audiences in
Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...
. The service, which provides editorially independent reporting, has the stated mission of providing accurate and uncensored reporting to countries in Asia that have poor media environments and limited protections for press freedom and
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. Based on
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, it was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of "promoting
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and
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", and countering the narrative of the
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, as well as providing media reports about the
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. It is funded and supervised by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (formerly Broadcasting Board of Governors), an
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. RFA distributes content in ten Asian languages for audiences in
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
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,
Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
,
Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
,
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
and
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.


History

After the
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, American interest in starting a government broadcasting organization grew.Susan B. Epstein
CRS Report for Congress
(PDF) A more concrete concept for such an organization aimed towards Asian countries was first presented by then Senator of
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Joe Biden, and later became a part of President
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's platform during his 1992 presidential campaign. The
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was passed by the
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and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, officially establishing Radio Free Asia. Radio Free Asia was incorporated in March 1996, and began broadcasting in September 1996. Although RFA directors preferred to broadcast under the name "the Asia-Pacific Network",
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representatives including Chris Smith and
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insisted on returning the name to Radio Free Asia before broadcasting began, to which president Richard Richter complied. Radio Free Asia was forced to change the name in part due to financial pressures from the US government, for although they operated with an independent board, their initial $10 million dollar annual budget came from the
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. In 1997, the then US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbott, began talks with the government of
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to purchase abandoned transmission facilities near
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for the purpose of expanding RFA's signal to overcome jamming. Richter personally lobbied in
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to support this effort. Although the
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intended to sell the facilities to a foreign broadcaster, preference was given to the
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over the fledgling RFA due to fears that such a sale would anger China, with Australian
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stating, "we are certainly not in the game of provocatively damaging our relations with China." In response to radio jamming efforts from China,
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and House Republican leaders helped to increase the budget of RFA and VOA, with further funding of RFA proposed as a way to combat China's political repression without levying trade restrictions that would anger American businesses. With the passage of the International Broadcasting Act in 1994, RFA was brought under auspices of the
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where it remained until the agency's cessation of broadcasting duties and transitioned to
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operated
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in 1999. In September 2009, the 111th Congress amended the International Broadcasting Act to allow a one-year extension of the operation of Radio Free Asia. RFA broadcasts in nine languages, via shortwave, satellite transmissions, medium-wave (AM and FM radio), and through the Internet. The first transmission was in
Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of ...
and it is RFA's most broadcast language at twelve hours per day. RFA also broadcasts in
Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...
,
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(
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,
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, and
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dialects), Uyghur, Burmese,
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, Lao, Khmer (to
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) and
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(to
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). The Korean service launched in 1997 with
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as its founding director. Broadcasts in Khmer to Cambodia that began under the country's
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continue despite the country no longer being communist. In 2017, RFA and other networks, such as
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, were put under the then newly created U.S. Agency for Global Media that also sends representatives to its board of directors.


List of presidents


Radio jamming and Internet blocking

Since broadcasting began in 1996, Chinese authorities have consistently jammed RFA broadcasts. Three RFA reporters were denied access to China to cover U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit in June 1998. The Chinese embassy in Washington had initially granted visas to the three but revoked them shortly before President Clinton left Washington en route to
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. The
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and
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filed complaints with Chinese authorities over the matter but the reporters ultimately did not make the trip. The Vietnamese-language broadcast signal was also jammed by the Vietnamese government from the beginning. Human rights legislation has been proposed in Congress that would allocate money to counter the jamming. Research by the
OpenNet Initiative The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) was a joint project whose goal was to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations. The project employed a number of technical means, as well as an international network of investigato ...
, a project that monitors Internet filtering by governments worldwide, showed that the Vietnamese-language portion of the Radio Free Asia website was blocked by both of the tested ISPs in Vietnam, while the English-language portion was blocked by one of the two ISPs. To address radio jamming and
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by the governments of the countries that it broadcasts to, the RFA website contains instruction on how to create anti-jamming antennas and information on web proxies. On March 30, 2010, China's domestic internet censor, known as the
Great Firewall The Great Firewall (''GFW''; ) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected for ...
, temporarily blocked all Google searches in China, due to an unintentional association with the long-censored term "rfa". According to Google, the letters, associated with Radio Free Asia, were appearing in the URLs of all Google searches, thereby triggering China's filter to block search results.


Arrests of Uyghur journalists' relatives

In 2014–2015 China arrested three brothers of RFA Uyghur Service journalist
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. Their jailing was widely described by Western publishers as Chinese authorities' efforts to target Hoshur for his reports on otherwise unreported violent events of the
Xinjiang conflict The Xinjiang conflict ( zh, c=新疆冲突), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), is an ongoing ethnic geopolitical conf ...
. Much larger numbers of relatives of RFA's Uyghur-language staff have since been detained, including the family of
Gulchehra Hoja Gulchehra "Guli" A. Hoja (born 1973) is a Uyghur–American journalist who has worked for '' Radio Free Asia'' since 2001. In November 2019, Hoja received the Magnitsky Human Rights Award for her reporting on the ongoing human rights crisis in ...
. RFA is the only station outside China that broadcasts in the
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. It has been recognized by journalists of ''
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'', ''
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'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Economist'' for playing a role in exposing
Xinjiang internment camps The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers ( zh, 职业技能教育培训中心, Zhíyè jìnéng jiàoyù péixùn zhōngxīn) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by ...
. In particular, ''The New York Times'' regards RFA as one of the few reliable sources of information about Xinjiang.


Xinjiang internment camps

In 2018, after RFA Journalist
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published an interview with an individual who had been detained in the
Xinjiang internment camps The Xinjiang internment camps, officially called vocational education and training centers ( zh, 职业技能教育培训中心, Zhíyè jìnéng jiàoyù péixùn zhōngxīn) by the government of China, are internment camps operated by ...
, Chinese authorities detained approximately two dozen of Hoja's relatives. Later that year, Chinese authorities
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two brothers and five cousins of an editor for RFA's Uyghur language service. ''
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'' has reported that as of 2021, eight of Radio Free Asia's fifteen staff of Uyghur ethnicity have family members who are detained in the Xinjiang internment camps.


Mission

Radio Free Asia's functions, as listed in , are: # oprovide accurate and timely information, news, and commentary about events in Asia and elsewhere; and # obe a forum for a variety of opinions and voices from within Asian nations whose people do not fully enjoy freedom of expression. Additionally, the International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (Title III of ), which authorized the creation of the RFA, contains the following paragraph: The RFA's mission statement is outlined on its website as follows:


Reception

In 1999, Catharin Dalpino of the
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, a former assistant secretary deputy for human rights, called Radio Free Asia "a waste of money" and elaborated that she believed its goals had more to do with domestic political symbolism than with supporting democratic movements in Asia, stating that "Wherever we feel there is an ideological enemy, we're going to have a Radio Free Something." Dalpino said she had reviewed scripts of RFA's broadcasts and viewed the station's reporting as unbalanced due to focus on the testimony of dissidents in exile rather than the events occurring in the countries themselves. Lynne Weil, a director of communications and external affairs for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has disputed descriptions of government-funded outlets as propaganda, referring to outlets such as
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as examples of non-propagandist journalism funded by a government entity. In 2001, Richter stated that congressional interference in the organization was minimal, saying that he "wanted to make sure we weren't just getting set up to be a kill-the-Commie organization."
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, director of the
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, described RFA as "a modern iteration of Cold War use of the airwaves, emphasizing a turn from the traditional Cold War targets to new ones" and argued that the goals of RFA prove that the "instruments of international broadcasting are a reflection of the priorities and internal politics of the sending nation." Vietnamese newspapers such as the state-run ''
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'' have criticized the goals of RFA and broadcasts into the country, with a writer for ''Nhân Dân'' accusing the network of attempting to "interfere in other countries' internal affairs." Chinese citizens calling in to RFA have expressed a wide range of opinions on the network, both positive and negative, many calling from pay phones to hide their identities.


Awards

Radio Free Asia has received several awards for its journalism, including: * 2008: Consumer Rights award.
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,
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. * 2010 and 2020: The International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award. * Edward R. Murrow National Award, 2019.
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. *
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, 2014.
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. * Annual Human Rights Press Award, 2012, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2000.
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,
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,
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. * Edward R. Murrow Regional Award, 2013, 2005, 2003, 2002, and 2001.
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. * Gracie Allen Award, 2013, 2010, and 2008.
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. * The U.S.
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' David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award, 2010. *
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's First Prize for Outstanding Online Reporting on the Environment for RFA's 2010 multimedia series "The Last Untamed River." * BenarNews, a RFA affiliate that reports in Bengali, Thai, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia and English targeting South and Southeast Asia, won the 2021 Murrow Award for Excellence in Video (Small Digital News Organization) from the Radio Television Digital News Association for a video report showcasing volunteers who helped transport, bury and conduct the last rites for people who died from
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in
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. * 歪脑 , WHYNOT ( zh, s=歪脑, t=歪腦, p=Wāinǎo), a RFA affiliate aiming for younger Mandarin speakers, won the 2021
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's Journalism Award (Feature, Small Newsroom) for "Preserving the Erased Decade of the Chinese Feminist Movement".


Broadcasting information


See also

*
International Broadcasting Bureau The International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) is the technical support outlet within the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) (former Broadcasting Board of Governors, BBG), which is a U.S. independent agency. The IBB supports the day-to- ...
* Murder of Robert Eric Wone, former counsel for Radio Free Asia *
Open Technology Fund The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an American nonprofit corporation that aims to support global Internet freedom technologies. Its mission is to "support open technologies and communities that increase free expression, circumvent censorship, and ...
– a Radio Free Asia program that was created in 2012 to support global Internet freedom technologies


References


Further reading

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External links

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