{"id":59385,"date":"2024-04-01T07:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59385"},"modified":"2024-04-01T07:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:09:03","slug":"taiwan-breaking-through-censorship-via-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/taiwan-breaking-through-censorship-via-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan: Breaking through censorship via shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following story: <\/strong><\/p>\n

How Taiwan breaches censors’ barriers (VOA News)<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n

Breaking the barriers of censorship in China, Myanmar and North Korea is a daunting task, as these countries have built almost impenetrable firewalls against outside news and information. But Radio Taiwan International is successfully using shortwave radio to break through.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe potentially have 70 million to 1.2 billion listeners who rely on shortwave to get information [from] outside of their country,\u201d said Isis Lee, RTI\u2019s vice president.<\/p>\n

On the air since 1928, RTI say their mission is to bring listeners stories they won\u2019t or can\u2019t hear or see on television, radio, online or in newspapers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our most important audiences to reach is the Mandarin-speaking society in China, which has very limited internet access,\u201d Lee told VOA. \u201cWe have a very big audience in China, and they rely on RTI shortwave service to get perspective outside of China in their mother language,\u201d she added. [Continue reading…<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following story: How Taiwan breaches censors’ barriers (VOA News) Breaking the barriers of censorship in China, Myanmar and North Korea is a daunting task, as these countries have built almost impenetrable firewalls against outside news and information. But Radio Taiwan International is successfully using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[83,1884,1885,10,1742],"class_list":["post-59385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-censorship","tag-radio-taiwan-international","tag-rti","tag-voa","tag-voa-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-frP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2891,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/voa-self-censors-in-russian-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":59385,"position":0},"title":"VOA self-censors in Russian elections","author":"Thomas","date":"March 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This interesting Op Ed piece\u00a0points out that VOA could be in violation of US Public Law 94-350 by adhering to Russian media law with VOA FM broadcasts in Moscow. 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Carlos notes: China, Japan, Taiwan: War of Words on the Shortwave (CGTN, NHK, Radio Taiwan International) https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/5LJ2x2RPois?si=z3NlIdjcAvXOE8eE Click here to view on YouTube.","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Dec-6-Multiple-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Dec-6-Multiple-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Dec-6-Multiple-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Dec-6-Multiple-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Dec-6-Multiple-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65072,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/taiwan-on-shortwave-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":59385,"position":4},"title":"Taiwan on Shortwave \u2013 Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"January 2, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"by Dan Greenall For nearly a half-century, The Voice of Free China broadcast programs via shortwave to a worldwide audience from Taipei, Taiwan. 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