The author, who helped shape current American perceptions of the Chinese Communist Party and U.S. policy and is a political ally of President Donald J. Trump, told RedState that shuttering Radio Free Asia would be a mistake.
“If we close Radio Free Asia, America will have no voice,” said Gordon G. Chang, the author of the 2024 book, “Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America.”
Chang said the private news organization funded by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, now led by another Trump ally, Kari Lake, is vital to both America’s interests and as a counterweight to her dictatorial rivals.
Radio Free Asia is necessary, he said.
“China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, among others, will dominate conversations throughout most of the world,” he said. “Totalitarianism, at a time when it is already relentlessly attacking us, will be the only one…
