US Must Coordinate to Take Down China’s Firewall: Former US Media Agency Head

China ‘builds the firewall because it knows very well that their ideas would not work if there were really a free exchange of ideas,’ Michael Pack said.
US Must Coordinate to Take Down China’s Firewall: Former US Media Agency Head
Michael Pack in Washington on Dec. 3, 2020. Tal Atzmon/The Epoch Times
Frank Fang
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The Trump administration should prioritize finding a way to coordinate a strong, unified government effort to take down communist China’s internet firewall, according to Michael Pack, who led the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) during President Donald Trump’s first term.

In a recent appearance on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” Pack, who is now a documentary filmmaker and the president of Palladium Pictures, said Washington needs to allocate its resources more efficiently so it can project its soft power to counter the Chinese regime’s iron grip on the internet inside its borders.
Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based reporter. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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