Soon, the Sound of Hope began to broadcast into mainland China itself. They need to do business in China,” said Zeng. “You would expect them to have some basic media decency and do their job. It was his response to a dearth of Chinese-language news coverage that wasn’t heavily influenced by the Chinese government. Zeng originally set up the station to broadcast to the Chinese language population in Silicon Valley. Sound of Hope, co-founded by Lin and Allen Zeng in 2004, looked to take the same technology and broadcast messages into China. During World War II, the Germans and the British both used radio waves between 3–30 MHz (10 to 100 metres) to try to persuade listeners around the world. Shortwave radio has been used for decades to broadcast news, information, political messages, and disinformation. It depends on if governments want to keep going or shut it down based on Beiging’s pressure,” "There’s no law that says you cannot do it. “Shortwave broadcast is kinda like a grey area," said Sean Lin, one of the co-founders of the Sound of Hope radio network. Protestors have taken to the streets to challenge the Hong Kong government’s growing acquiescence to Beijing while Chinese government forces and their allies have used militias to attack protestors and electronic tools to disrupt their communications. But media censorship means that few mainland Chinese know what’s going on.Ī Silicon Valley-based organization has found a way to get information into China and out to Chinese speakers around the world: shortwave radio. For more than four months, Hong Kong has been in the grips of a civil crisis.
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