RFA 台长：终止资助 RFA 对中共而言是一大奖赏

2025.03.15

2025年3月15日，华盛顿——自由亚洲电台（RFA）今日接获美国全球媒体总署（USAGM）通知，决定终止对 RFA 的联邦资助协议，该协议一直支持 RFA 在亚洲及全球的新闻运作。RFA 台长方贝（Bay Fang）就此发表以下声明：

「终止 RFA 资助，相当于奖励了独裁者和专制政权，包括中国共产党，这些势力最希望的就是在资讯领域内毫无制衡、为所欲为。RFA 在协助美国决策者了解中国及其他封闭国家的真实情况方面发挥了关键作用，并在透明度和问责机制几乎不存在的地方带来了光明。RFA 在新疆问题上的突破性报导，促使特朗普政府首次正式宣布中国政府犯下种族灭绝罪行。」

「今天的决定不仅剥夺了每周近6000万名依赖 RFA 报导来获取真相的听众与读者的知情权，更是在牺牲美国自身利益的情况下，让我们的对手从中获益。我们计划对这一短视的决定提出挑战，并将竭尽所能，继续我们的工作，保护我们英勇的新闻工作者。」

英文全文：
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.