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handle is hein.crs/govdady0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i N\ jrz President Trump Criticizes VOA Coverage of China's COVID-19 Response April 28, 2020 The President's Criticism of VOA's Coverage of China On April 10, 2020, the White House included in its online 1600 Daily summary of key news and events a statemnt entitled Voice of America Spends Your Money to Speak for Authoritarian Regimes. The statement referred to a \'oice of Arncica (VOA) story and two posts that, it asserted, amplified Beijing's propaganda about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The statement criticized VOA for running an Associated Press aticle on its website on April 7, 2020, which referred to Wuhan's lockdown as a model for other countries battling the coronavirus. The White House statement provided an image of part of a March 31, 2020, VOA Facebook post, which included a graphic showing that the U.S. COVID- 19 death toll had surpassed China's then-official tally. On April 7, 2020, a VOA tweet showed a video of a light show put on by the Wuhan government to mark the end of the city's lockdown. VOA operates under the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), an independent, federal entity whose mission is to provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted. Voice of America released a respouse to the White House statement, asserting that VOA has thoroughly debunked Chinese government and state-run disinformation and propaganda related to the pandemic, and that we are free to show all sides of an issue and are actually mandated to do so by law, unlike Chinese media. VOA also emphasized that due to its independent and factual reporting, VOA journalists have been effectively barred by the Chinese government from working inside China. VOA in China VOA, which offers international and U.S. news in over 40 languages, targets audiences in China with English, Mandarin (Chinese), Cantonese, and Tibetan television and radio broadcasts, as well as digital content. Mandarin service program areas include reports on major news developments related to the United States, the People's Republic of China (PRC), U.S.-China relations, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, American culture and sports, and English language learning. USAGM's VOA-Eadio Free Asia (RFA) Global Mandarin initiative, expected to be fully launched in 2021, intends to target 400 million young Mandarin speakers in and outside of mainland China, and aims to counter China's growing media influence around the world. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11365 CRS NSMHT Prepared forN Members aind Corn-,mitteos of Corlgress

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