Why VOA, known as a 'lie factory,' has halted operations

On March 15 local time, Michael Abramowitz, director of Voice of America, an international broadcaster whose parent agency is the US Agency for Global Media, confirmed on social media that he and "virtually the entire staff" of 1,300 had been placed on leave. From smearing human rights in China's Xinjiang to hyping up disputes in the South China Sea, from supporting "Taiwan independence" forces to backing Hong Kong rioters, from fabricating the so-called China virus narrative to promoting the claim of China's "overcapacity," almost every malicious falsehood about China has VOA's fingerprints all over it. Now, in Washington, against the backdrop of reducing federal agency funding, the decision to stop funding for entities like VOA has immediately prompted some anti-China politicians in the US to label this move as "a massive gift" to China, effectively tearing off the fig leaf of VOA as a propaganda tool themselves. The Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation once publicly criticized VOA for lacking "professional ethics" and using dirty tactics to smear normal interactions and cooperation between Cambodia and China. As a tool of "cognitive warfare" that became active during the Cold War and has already shown numerous flaws, the positioning of entities like VOA suggests that they should not exist in today's multipolar world.