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Radio Free Asia broadcast to tens of millions of listeners around Asia, including in China, and RFA broke investigative stories about human rights abuses in China, including Beijing's mass incarceration of ethnic minorities such as the Uyghurs.
But RFA has now cut all of its bureaus and largely stopped broadcasting due to funding shortages after their congressional funding was slashed by the Trump administration.
Now, two Democratic representatives, Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois and Young Kim of California, have argued in a letter sent to the Appropriations Committee that this is ceding space to China's state media outlets.
And they pushed for renewed funding to RFA in order for the U.S.
to, quote, remain competitive in the global information ecosystem.
Fentanyl traffickers have long purchased large quantities of industrial chemicals from Chinese manufacturers, mixing them elsewhere and then smuggling the final drug into the U.S.
In exchange for China's extra controls this week, the U.S.
agreed to halve a tariff it had slapped on Chinese goods in retaliation for what it said was China's lax enforcement of fentanyl precursors.
have cooperated in the past to investigate and arrest precursor makers in China, but that cooperation has been tested by tensions between the two countries, including three years ago when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island of Taiwan, angering China and prompting Beijing to suspend its fentanyl-combating operations with the U.S.
Just a few days ago, a new team of astronauts launched into space and successfully docked at the Tiangong station.
But the outgoing group of astronauts is now delayed after a six-month stint aboard the station.
China's space agency believes space debris hit the station.
China's been making big strides in its space program.
The Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace in Chinese, is China's first permanently crewed station and was designed to rival the U.S.-led International Space Station.
The space agency says the next crew to Tiangong will include an international astronaut from Pakistan for the first time.
And this week, China said it was on track to land a person on the moon by 2030.