Voice of America ​​was corroded and infiltrated by the CCP

(The original article in Chinese by Jie Yu was published on 新世纪NewCenturyNet on 9/2/2020. This English version was translated by Dr. Pingnan Shi.)

The collapse of Voice of America ​​(VOA) caused by the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) means that the heart of the United States has been poisoned and even paralyzed on an invisible battlefield. The severity of the fall of VOA ​​cannot be overestimated.

A few years ago, the new director of Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany) subjected himself to the CCP and fired several reporters and editors who reported on human rights issues in China. Some Chinese netizens sarcastically said: “The so-called Voice of Germany is actually the Voice of East Germany.” Today, Voice of America ​​is following in the footsteps of Voice of Germany, from promoting American democracy with the support of American taxpayers to the “mouthpiece” of the CCP’s Propaganda Department.

There are two main reasons for the collapse of VOA: one is the appeasement legacy of the Barack Obama administration. Some American politicians wishfully regard China as a smiling panda and want to make money with it. The second is that the enriched CCP has invested heavily in controlling overseas Chinese media and Western mainstream media by means of its “big foreign propaganda” policy. Voice of America has become one of its “trophies.”

From the director of VOA, Amanda Bennett, down to several of her high-level officials are all former officials of the Obama era. They have faithfully carried out Obama’s appeasement policy toward China. Obama himself has an ultra-left ideology. During his eight-year tenure, he did not hesitate to harm the national security and national interests of the United States to please China. His wife Michelle Obama once hung a portrait of Mao Zedong on the Christmas tree in the White House.

Obama bowed in front of Xi Jinping and accepted Xi’s humiliation during his visit to China. The Chinese government deliberately did not provide a gangway to the visiting Air Force One, forcing Obama to get out from the plane's belly embarrassingly. The President of the United States represents the country's image to the outside world, and Obama’s action is a humiliation for the American people. Like Obama, officials big and small in his administration had all bowed down to the CCP.

Due to her worldview, coupled with a personal financial interest, Amanda Bennett, as a senior journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, has turned from a fighter for press freedom into someone who stifles freedom of the press. This path is not surprising. After Trump came into power, his appointment of the director of the United States International Media Agency (USAGM), which oversees VOA, was stuck in the Congress by the Democratic Party; as a result, Bennett was allowed to control VOA ​​for three more years.

Communist countries use propaganda warfare to enforce internal control and external expansion. American scholar W. Cleon Skousen pointed out in his book, The Naked Communist Party: How Communism Endangers the Free World, that many of the forty-five goals of Soviet Russia’s infiltration of the United States are related to the media, such as “infiltrate the media and control the positions in the media related to book reviews, author groups, and policy-making,” “control important positions in radio stations, television stations, and film companies,” “continue to denigrate American culture by degrading various forms of American artistic expression,” etc.

The goal that the Soviet Union could not accomplish back then is now achieved by the CCP.

Among the many staff members of VOA who did not hide their pro-communist stance, there are registered CCP spies, as well as “quasi spies” or “extra-staffers” who have benefited from the CCP. These people have relatives and friends in China. The CCP uses both soft and hard measures to give their relatives and friends various benefits in exchange for their cooperation.

As a result, VOA has carried out pro-CCP propaganda. For example, after the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech on China policy, VOA published many negative reports, the most representative of which is “Pompeo’s China policy speech was considered as ‘war declaration,’ and scholars worry about the accelerated decoupling of the US-China relationship.”

All of the scholars interviewed in this report are working for the CCP, but the report didn’t disclose that information. The first part of the report used a large amount of space to quote the rebuttals from the Chinese Foreign Minister and the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then interviewed Shen Dingli, a professor at the School of International Relations at Fudan University in Shanghai and a scholar on international issues. Shen said: “What (The United States’ closing of the Chinese Consulate in Houston) can do is to increase (among the Chinese people) a more negative view of this reactionary system in the United States.”

The Schools of International Relations in Chinese universities are mostly affiliated with the Ministry of National Security. In this way, VOA allowed a Chinese special agent to promote the official position of China. The report also interviewed China analyst Hu Xingdou (the report admitted that he is also an academic working for the CCP). Hu refuted Pompeo’s claim that the Sino-US dispute is a struggle between freedom and tyranny: “Like other developing countries, although China has problems such as counterfeiting and plagiarism that infringe on the intellectual property rights of other countries, the Trump administration has infinitely exaggerated the problems.”

Hu also said, “From a realistic point of view, the Communist Party of Vietnam is making a peaceful transition to a democratic and constitutional party. The communists fully tolerate the values of democracy, freedom, constitutionalism, and the rule of law.” “Marx opposed censorship. The value system of Communism or Socialism also includes freedom, democracy, the rule of law, fairness, etc., and there is no conflict with the values of mainstream civilization.”

This report no longer follows the principle of balanced reporting. It is all negative, and it is all to help China speak out. This kind of reporting is exactly the same as that of the Global Times [1].

In the era of confrontation with Soviet Russia, the vast majority of Americans clearly believed that Soviet Russia was an “evil empire” that threatened American freedom. Both the U.S. ruling and opposition parties were very vigilant against Soviet Russia’s infiltration. In 1937, the entire department of the Eastern European Affairs Office in the State Council was abolished. Even the library was demolished, possibly under pressure from the White House.

George F. Kennan pointed out: “There is indeed a smell of Soviet influence, or a very strong pro-Soviet smell, to some extent in the high-level government departments.” President Harry S. Truman declared that there are 50,000 communists in the United States who are in contact with Soviet Russia and are preparing to carry out sabotage activities. “Those people with ulterior motives and their subversive activities may actually prevent American aircrafts from flying.”

In the 1970s, the Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exposed the truth about the Soviet labor camps in his novel Gulag Islands, which sold millions of copies in the United States. However, most Americans today are ignorant of the harm and danger posed by China. They don’t know anything about Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from China, who is greater than Solzhenitsyn, and his tragic fate of being tortured and killed by the Chinese Communist Party. Solzhenitsyn is almost a household name in the United States back then, but how many people in the United States now know who Liu Xiaobo is?

The small Laogai Memorial Hall [2] in Washington DC was closed soon after the accidental death of its founder, Wu Hongda. It was four years after Wu’s death when the US Customs imposed a fine for the first time on a Chinese company that forced prisoners in a labor camp to work for its products which were exported to the United States. The amount of the fine was negligible compared to the profit.

In the Cold War era, Americans believed in the fact that Soviet Russia was a “Red Nazi.” According to the McAllen Internal Security Act, the State Department enforced a “warning letter” with 50,000 names; the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, had established a complete file of suspected Soviet spies.

American historian Derek Leebaert, who was critical of the Cold War, wrote in his book Fifty Years of Scars: America’s Cold War History and the World that the far-left historian Walter S. Rickney admitted that he thought “the McCarthyism was initially absurd.” However, in 1953, Julius and Luxemburg were both convicted of espionage after stealing American atomic bomb secrets and providing them to Soviet Russia. After they were executed by electric chair, Rickney finally realized that “the situation is indeed severe.”

Today, the situation is more severe. China has successfully bribed a large group of Americans, including many “successful Chinese Americans,” among them are several VOA employees who are willing to spread the view that “China is more lovely than the United States and China’s system is superior to the United States.” During the Cold War era, Soviet Russia never succeeded in controlling any American mainstream media. Even the flagship of the American left, the New York Times, adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards Soviet Russia.

Today, the CCP is conquering the US press: not only almost all of the Chinese language media in the United States have fallen into the hands of the CCP, but many mainstream US media are also full of absurd statements that praise China, ranging from the New York Times to the Voice of American.

[1] An English language newspaper controlled by the CCP

[2] Laogai (劳改）menas re-education (brainwash) through hard labor.