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Kari Lake Bombshell: VOA managers met with Chinese to discuss more favorable coverage for Beijing
Just the News ^ | July 22, 2025 | Misty Severi

Posted on 07/28/2025 7:10:10 AM PDT by Twotone

Voice of America (VOA) managers met multiple times with Chinese officials seeking to influence more favorable U.S. coverage of their country, part of a larger dynamic that proved to the "detriment of America" and its taxpayer-funded media operation for the world, Trump adviser Kari Lake told Just the News.

Lake, the president's senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, said the meetings with communist China officials both in Washington and abroad were discovered as part of an investigation that exposed undue foreign influence on the VOA's operations.

"We found out in our investigations over the months that I've been here, that the CCP, operating out of the embassy in Washington, D.C. ... were meeting regularly with VOA management to tell them how they should be covering China," Lake said Tuesday night in a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.

Lake said the coverage was skewed to portray the country in a positive light, and that at least one VOA official with the Mandarin language division had pledged his support for the CCP at one of the meetings.

"I mean, you can't make this stuff up. It's so crazy. But then over the years, it got more brazen, and I understand that VOA management, some of them, actually went over to China and met with CCP officials there," she said.

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KEYWORDS: ccp; china; chineseinfluence; chineseinfluencers; cia; foreigninfluence; karilake; operationmockingbird; prc; russia; russianinfluence; russianinfluencers; voa; voiceofamerica

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1 posted on 07/28/2025 7:10:10 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

I always note how in our media the Tiananmen Square Massacre has pretty much gone down the memory hole.


2 posted on 07/28/2025 7:11:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Twotone

“They’re not bad folks, folks!” /s


3 posted on 07/28/2025 7:14:22 AM PDT by OKSooner (Who says shooting woolly mammoths with a 1911 is a bad thing? )
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To: OKSooner; Liz; Red Badger; SunkenCiv

VOA and Radio Free Europe “used to be” the actual people who promoted freedom and American values overseas.


4 posted on 07/28/2025 7:19:09 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Twotone

What a concept for VOA
Get rid of Tokyo Rose and Axis Annie.
The American last agenda of the Biden regime was suicidal.


5 posted on 07/28/2025 7:20:12 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: dfwgator

The Media have always had a very selective memory. I am not so sure that the CIA and NSA have not funded them for decades, along with some networks. They certainly have exerted maximum pressure on them to deliver the messages that they want.


6 posted on 07/28/2025 7:51:49 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Twotone

Favorable Coverage = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


7 posted on 07/28/2025 8:03:18 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Robert A Cook PE

The hiring of questionable foreign nationals using this visa sleight-of-hand began in 2009 and continued through the Biden admin, and :

“Lake argued that Chinese journalists being brought to America on the taxpayer’s dime and pushing “pro-CCP propaganda” to the “detriment” of the country, contradicted the original purpose of the VOA, which was formed during World War II to combat Axis propaganda and later used during the Cold War to promote Western and American values abroad.

The senior advisor, who has been tasked with dismantling the USAGM and VOA, additionally noted that the issue extended beyond China to impact coverage of Russia as well. Those stories, she lamented, were largely pro-Russia and “anti-American.”

Lake confirmed that the agency would be ending the J1 visa program used by prior leadership to hire and retain foreign journalists, as Just the News reported on Tuesday.” ...


8 posted on 07/28/2025 8:13:50 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: silent majority rising

The concern here is FOREIGN influence, such as Chinese and Russian intelligence.


9 posted on 07/28/2025 8:17:04 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: OKSooner

“Ah, ma’am, I’m just a dolphin.”


10 posted on 07/28/2025 8:17:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Twotone

I thought we were shutting all that stuff down?

What a complete waste of money. It’s not like we need to encourage anyone to come here.


11 posted on 07/28/2025 8:18:08 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

I thought VOA was supposed to counter communist propaganda. But apparently we’re doing the reverse. Definitely a gov’t entity we no longer need.


12 posted on 07/28/2025 8:20:11 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone
I keep reading these stories about TikTok and VOA and the major media all pushing a favorable viewpoint of China... and I have yet to ever see a single example in any of them.

Kids use TikTok for dance videos and humor and pranks and to talk about their pets. In the zillions of hours I've spent on TikTok (which has the shockingly consistent ability to turn 10 min of viewing into 4 hours somehow), I've never once seen a pro-CCP post or ad or statement. Whining about the Chinese owners using our data is likewise laughable, as it seems to say that we are somehow better off having Bill Gates and Zuckerberg and our own government and hundreds of other companies spying on us and using our data.

13 posted on 07/28/2025 8:25:39 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Twotone

Every day I give thanks for Donald Trump.


14 posted on 07/28/2025 8:32:58 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Unchecked mass insanity of woke will be more devastating than all the wars and plagues of the past.)
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