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_How Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Acting on Behalf of China_
The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing
worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.
By David E. Sanger
March 22, 2025 | Updated 9:22 a.m. ET
When President Trump announced on Friday that the United States would move ahead
with a long-debated project to build a stealthy next-generation fighter jet, the
message to China was clear: The United States plans to spend tens of billions of
dollars over the next decade, probably far longer, to contain Beijing’s ability
to dominate the skies over the Pacific.
But here on earth, the reality has been very different.
As the Department of Government Efficiency roars through agencies across government, its targets have included some of the organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert. And, as with much that Elon Musk’s DOGE has dismembered, there has been no published study of the costs and
benefits of losing those capabilities — and no discussion of how the roles, arguably as important as a manned fighter, might be replaced.
On the list of capabilities on life support is Radio Free Asia, a 29-year-old nonprofit that estimates its news broadcasts reach 60 million people in Asia each week, from China to Myanmar, and across the Pacific islands where the United States has been struggling to counter China’s narratives about the world.
It furloughed all but 75 of its Washington staff members on Friday, trying to stay on the air while court cases develop on Trump officials’ moves to defund U.S. government-supported media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-china.html
Musk is carrying out Xi's agenda.
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