Watching Myanmar<p>Myanmar Junta Chief Thanks <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> for Shutting Down VOA & RFA. “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFA</span></a>’s Burmese services were among…media outlets dedicated to covering <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Myanmar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Myanmar</span></a>… where factual coverage is hard to come by, but their operations were halted in mid-March after Trump ordered budget cuts to…the US Agency for Global Media... The move was the second recent blow to media covering Myanmar after Trump’s shutdown of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a>...” | Irrawaddy <a href="https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-chief-thanks-trump-for-shutting-down-voa-and-rfa.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanm</span><span class="invisible">ar-junta-chief-thanks-trump-for-shutting-down-voa-and-rfa.html</span></a></p>