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33-525: China News may refer to: Taiwan News , formerly known as China News, English language newspaper in Taiwan China News (CCTV) , a news program of CCTV-4 China News Service , state-owned news agency in the People's Republic of China Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

66-757: A Hong Kong edition in 1997. By 2006, it had a reported circulation of 300,000, of which two thirds were in China and one third international. In 2010, it launched China Daily Asia Weekly, a tabloid -sized pan-Asian edition. In December 2012, China Daily launched an Africa edition, published in Nairobi , the capital of Kenya . This edition aimed expand the China Daily readership, of both African people and Chinese people who live in Africa, and showcase China's interests in Africa. In 2015, China Daily published

99-450: A fake op-ed which the publication claimed was penned by Peter Hessler . They combined part of the transcript of an interview he had done with comments from another person interviewed as well as completely fabricated parts and ran it as an op-ed under Hessler's byline without his knowledge or permission. The fabricated op-ed contained made up praise for China and misrepresented Hessler's own words by taking them out of context. According to

132-594: A full-size page format. Wei left the newspaper in 1965. Wei was also a Reuters correspondent and deputy director of the Central News Agency . During his later years he was the sixth Director of the Government Information Office, serving from October 31, 1966, to June 1, 1972. Wei was a close advisor to Chiang Ching-kuo . China News ran into financial difficulties in 1996 and received capital injection from I-Mei Foods, but

165-586: A lack of financial resources to hire English-speaking journalists and produce good translations from Chinese news articles, the high turnover of foreign editorial staff and the absence of an English speaking environment in Taiwan. In 2010, Taiwan News went digital and simultaneously ended its weekly financial and cultural magazine. In 2015, Taiwan News became an all-digital publication when it ended all print editions. China Daily China Daily ( Chinese : 中国日报 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó Rìbào )

198-467: A one-month trial. It was initially led by Jiang Muyue, with Liu Zhunqi as editor in chief. It was the first national daily English-language newspaper in China after the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. Its initial circulation was 22,000, which grew to 65,000 by the following year. The paper was a departure from other Chinese newspapers at the time: it was "a Western -style paper", in content, style, and organizational structure. By July 1982,

231-529: A report that cited China Daily and other state media outlets for "selective highlighting" of potential vaccine side-effects and "disregarding contextual information or ongoing research" to present Western vaccines as unsafe. In October 2021, the German Marshall Fund reported that China Daily was one of several state media outlets propagating a conspiracy theory concerning the origins of COVID-19 . In January 2022, China Daily alleged that

264-463: A roster of foreign and Taiwanese reporters. It has business partnerships with Media Outreach , PR Newswire , Reuters , and Report Ocean . Under the ownership of I-Mei Foods, Taiwan News changed its editorial stance from being pro- KMT to being in favor of the Pan-Green coalition and Taiwan independence . According to former editor Anthony Lawrance, Taiwan News opposes autocracies and

297-610: A simple mouthpiece" and has a "distinctive, if quixotic, status". In 2009, China Daily was called "the most influential English language national newspaper in China" according to University of St. Thomas scholar Juan Li. It is known for original reporting. Non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders has accused China Daily of engaging in censorship and propaganda. The New York Times wrote that China Daily 's inserts published in US newspapers "generally offer an informative, if anodyne, view of world affairs refracted through

330-451: Is "one of our most important tools in carrying out external propaganda". A former copy-editor (or "polisher" as termed at China Daily ) for the newspaper described her role being "to tweak propaganda enough that it read as English, without inadvertently triggering war." Journalist Michael Ottey described his time working for China Daily as "almost like working for a public relations firm" and added "it wasn't really honest journalism. It

363-960: Is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party . China Daily has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in China. The headquarters and principal editorial office is in the Chaoyang District of Beijing . The newspaper has branch offices in most major cities of China as well as several major foreign cities including New York City , Washington, D.C. , London , and Kathmandu . China Daily also produces an insert of sponsored content called China Watch that has been distributed inside other newspapers including The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post , and Le Figaro . Within mainland China,

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396-505: The Chicago Tribune to sever financial ties with China Daily . Media outlets such as The New York Times , NPR , Quartz , and BuzzFeed News have published accounts of China Daily 's dissemination of disinformation related to the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests . In September 2019, China Daily 's official Facebook account stated that Hong Kong protesters were planning on launching terrorist attacks on 11 September of

429-562: The Associated Press , the editorial repeated Chinese Communist Party talking points and China Daily refused to retract it although it subsequently removed the English language version of the op-ed. In 2018, the paper fabricated a quote by the mayor of Davos , Tarzisius Caviezel. A January 2020 report by Freedom House , a U.S. non-governmental organization , noted that China Daily had increased its spending from $ 500,000 in

462-756: The People's Daily . According to its 2014 annual report, China Daily is formally managed by the State Council Information Office (SCIO), which was formed from the Central Publicity Department in 1991. The SCIO holds regular meetings with journalists and editors from China Daily on what they should publish. In 2014, the SCIO was absorbed into the CCP's Central Publicity Department. The SCIO has stated that China Daily

495-641: The People's Republic of China . In the late 1990s, Taiwan News rejected Chinese unification as advocated by the Kuomintang and associations of Taiwan with the People's Republic of China under the " one country, two systems " principle. China News was founded on 6 June 1949 in Taipei by James Wei , a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the Ministry of Information . The newspaper

528-587: The Chinese Communist Party. In June 2020, China Daily awarded a tender for a "foreign personnel analysis platform" to the Communication University of China to scan social media and automatically flag "false statements and reports on China." In September 2020, India's Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement saying that comments made by China Daily were falsely attributed to Ajit Doval . In September 2023,

561-596: The South and Southeast Asian Media Network. China Daily has continued to partner with other provincial "International Communication Centers" established by provincial CCP propaganda departments. In a 2004 journal article, University of Sheffield professor Lily Chen stated that China Daily was "essentially a publicly funded government mouthpiece". Judy Polumbaum stated in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (2009) that China Daily "resists definition as

594-497: The U.S. planned to pay athletes to "sabotage" the 2022 Winter Olympics . In March 2022, China Daily published an article in Chinese which falsely claimed that COVID-19 was created by Moderna , citing a page on The Exposé , a British conspiracist website. A 2019 critical discourse analysis of China Daily 's coverage of Chinese Muslims found them to be portrayed as "obedient and dependent Chinese citizens who benefit from

627-636: The US Department of State accused the Chinese government of information laundering by using a fictitious opinion columnist named "Yi Fan" writing in China Daily and other outsets to present state narratives as "organic sentiment". In January 2024, China Daily and the Yunnan International Communication Center, a project of the propaganda department of the Yunnan provincial CCP committee, jointly launched

660-721: The first half of 2009 to over $ 5 million in the latter half of 2019 for increased print runs. China Daily said it had a circulation of 300,000 in the U.S. and 600,000 overseas. In February 2020, a group of U.S. lawmakers asked the United States Department of Justice to investigate China Daily for alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Later the same month, the United States Department of State designated China Daily , along with several other Chinese state media outlets, as foreign missions owned or controlled by

693-570: The government's intervention." In January 2021, a China Daily article praised a report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences , stating that government policies in Xinjiang had "emancipated" the minds of Uyghur women so that they are "no longer baby-making machines". The article drew condemnation as being a justification for reproductive policies which persecute Uyghur people , and sparked calls for Twitter to remove links to

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726-469: The height of mass demonstrations. The newspaper's coverage of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak was reported to be more critical, fact-driven, and less laudatory than that of the People's Daily . A 2018 discourse analysis from Uppsala University found that prior to Xi Jinping 's accession, many China Daily articles portrayed their government as a particular kind of democracy, with democratic ideals such as

759-712: The implementation of universal suffrage (in Hong Kong) and grassroots elections sometimes endorsed. After his accession, articles became more negative in tone toward democracy and shifted focus to portraying the "vices" of democracies in the West, particularly the United States. Scholars have described China Daily as effectively controlled by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Ideologically, it tends to adopt similar perspectives to

792-523: The lens of the Communist Party." In response to criticism, The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Daily Telegraph , and Nine Entertainment Co. ceased publishing China Daily 's China Watch inserts in their newspapers. In March 2024, US senator Marco Rubio publicly called on The Seattle Times , Houston Chronicle , The Boston Globe , Los Angeles Times , Time , USA Today , Financial Times , Sun Sentinel , and

825-436: The management of the newspaper was unchanged. In May 1999, I-Mei Foods acquired 50 percent stake in the newspaper for NTD$ 60 million (US$ 1.8 million). The newspaper's name was changed to Taiwan News to reflect the newspaper's new focus on readers in Taiwan and to avoid confusion with China Daily and China News Service . After the change in ownership, Taiwan News increased its page count and lowered staff wages. Under

858-409: The newspaper and its various international editions as an "instrument of China's public diplomacy ." China Daily 's editorial policies have historically been described as slightly more liberal than other Chinese state news outlets. Its coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre was overwhelmingly sympathetic to the student protests with many of its journalists joining in at

891-631: The newspaper had plans to publish editions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and tentatively Australia. Initially, it struggled to find English-speaking journalists. China Daily began distribution in North America in 1983. It has been registered as a foreign agent in the United States under the Foreign Agents Registration Act since 1983. China Daily introduced an online edition in 1996 and

924-400: The newspaper targets primarily diplomats , foreign expatriates , tourists, and locals wishing to improve their English. The China edition also offers program guides to Radio Beijing and television, daily exchange rates, and local entertainment schedules. It has been used as a guide to Chinese government policy and positions of the Chinese Communist Party . Scholar Falk Hartig describes

957-446: The ownership of I-Mei Foods, Simone Wei became the newspaper's chairperson and I-Mei CEO Kao Chih-ming became the publisher. By 1998, 63 percent of Taiwan News' readership were local readers and the rest were businesspeople, diplomats, academics, teachers and students from outside Taiwan. Former editor Anthony Lawrance said in 2001 that Taiwan News mainly republished wire stories and had few articles with original reporting due to

990-678: The same year. In May 2020, CNN , Financial Times , and other media outlets reported that China Daily censored references to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic from an opinion piece authored by European Union ambassadors. In January 2021, China Daily inaccurately attributed deaths in Norway to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine . In April 2021, the European External Action Service published

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1056-418: Was established to cater for foreign residents and the local population in Taiwan. At the time it was the only English-language daily newspaper in Taiwan and it was a newspaper published in the afternoon. Later on, in order to compete with its new competitor, China News had to change and was published in the morning in order not to lose its advertisements. In 1960, the newspaper switched to block printing in

1089-466: Was more 'Let's make the Chinese government look good.'" Writer Mitch Moxley, who worked at China Daily from 2007 to 2008, wrote in 2013 that many of the articles published in the newspaper's opinion pages "violated everything [he] had ever learned about journalistic ethics , including China Daily' s own code: 'Factual, Honest, Fair, Complete.'" China Daily was officially established in June 1981 after

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