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own University JAMES MULVENON SOS International ANDREW J. NATHAN Columbia University MINXIN PEI Claremo
reign operations of China Global Television Network, China National Radio and China Radio International.” (It is not clear whether the parallel with the Voice of America was intentional.) Despite all of these efforts, President Xi still appears to be unsatisfied with the Party’s efforts to “grab the right to speak.”
the political aisle. The Liberal trade minister, Andrew Robb, was shown to have stepped directly from off
ve to Singapore.) International service broadcasters Another roadblock has been China’s efforts to limit the influence of the Mandarin services of the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Starting in the first decade of the 2000s, the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, and the leadership of VOA’s Mandarin service b
than expected. One variation on this argument is Andrew Ng’s statement that it’s “like worrying about ove
d a front row seat when it fell. I heard this first message in the nostalgic reminiscences of my grandparents and in between the harsh noises jamming the Voice of America. It grew louder during the Gorbachev era, as the state became more lenient in its treatment of dissidents, and reached a crescendo in the Estonian Si
than expected. One variation on this argument is Andrew Ng’s statement that it’s “like worrying about ove
d a front row seat when it fell. I heard this first message in the nostalgic reminiscences of my grandparents and in between the harsh noises jamming the Voice of America. It grew louder during the Gorbachev era, as the state became more lenient in its treatment of dissidents, and reached a crescendo in the Estonian Si
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ion supporter ikhail Khodorkovsky was dispatched to a Rus- sian prison for 10 years for daring to challenge Putin. In 2017, anticorruption campaigner Andrei Navalny, widely regarded as the most serious challenger to Putin, was effectively eliminated from the 2018 presidential contest after being convicted
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019246 →e-friendly organizations have generally been left alone. emorial, the human rights organization founded to carry forward the ideals associated with Andrey Sakharov, was one of the first groups to be unilaterally registered as a foreign agent by the Justice Ministry in 2014. In 2015, the ministry accuse
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019260 →forthright commentary. Near the end of 2016, Congress passed legislation that placed the country’s government-supported interna- tional media outlets—Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and their sister services focused on Asia and other regions—under more direct presidential control,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019293 →Entities connected to both Prince Andrew and the Voice of America

Jeffrey Epstein
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Donald Trump
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Bill Clinton
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Alan Dershowitz
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George W. Bush
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Martha Stewart
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Virginia Giuffre
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Joe Biden
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Stephen Hawking
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Julie K. Brown
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Eric Trump
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Harvey Weinstein
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