China’s state-run media is supporting President Donald Trump’s recent direction to scale back the Voice of America.

“The so-called beacon of freedom, VOA, has now been discarded by its own government like a dirty rag,” the Global Times editorialized this week, calling the VOA “a frontline propaganda tool in the ideological confrontation of the Cold War.”

The Global Times is a daily newspaper published under supervision of the Chinese Communist Party.

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