Trump's USAID and VOA cuts signal pivot from U.S. soft power : Consider This from NPR : NPR
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Trump's USAID and VOA cuts signal pivot from U.S. soft power : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

Trump is taking a hammer to traditional pillars of soft power Enlarge this image toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images The argument for international aid is in part a moral one, but it's also been about U.S. interests. As then-senator Marco Rubio put it in 2017: "I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-Americanism, anti-American terrorism if the United States of America was the reason why they're even alive today." Trump has also moved to gut government-funded, editorially independent broadcasters like Voice of America, and attempted to effectively eliminate the congressionally-funded think tank the U.S. Institute of Peace. We talk to former Democratic congressman and former secretary of agriculture, Dan Glickman, who And NPR's Emily Feng reports on the legacy of Voice of America in China.

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All Voice of America employees put on leave as Trump prepares to cut staff at US-funded media organisations After coming to power in the US, the Trump administration has taken several steps to assert its authority over Voice of America. US President Donald Trump's administration began to make deep cuts to Voice of America and other government-run, pro-democracy programming on …

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