Radio Free Asia
A Washington-based, private, non-profit corporation created in 1994 on the model of Radio Free Europe and financed through the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which is defined as an “independent federal government agency.”
RFA and VOA were created based on the conviction that domestic broadcasters in many countries, including in Asia, failed to provide balanced reporting. Their raison d’etre is to fi ll this critical gap. Take the RFA, for example. Created by the US Congress in 1994, its stated mission is to supply a variety of opinions and voices from within Asian countries that lack full and free news media. Beijing has often complained that RFA content indicates sympathy for groups or individuals hostile to the Chinese government. Accordingly, RFA broadcasts are regularly jammed by Beijing (Epstein, 1997).