CHINA IN TURMOIL : Voice of America Adds Frequencies
From Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
The Voice of America has added two Chinese language frequencies to compensate partially for three frequencies that Chinese authorities began jamming Monday, the State Department said Thursday.
The new frequencies have not yet been jammed, nor have English-language broadcasts to China, spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said.
The jamming was an apparent attempt by China to deprive pro-democracy demonstrators of one their main sources of information about the upheaval in that country.
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