“Dear PoPville,
I saw this new newspaper station outside the Cleveland Park metro station. Google says China Daily is owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Anyone know anything about this? Seems odd it just appeared last week.”
Wikipedia says:
“China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
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 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.
In February 2020, 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 the lens of the Communist Party.” Later that year, 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 the Chicago Tribune to sever financial ties with China Daily.
A 2025 frame analysis of China Daily articles by Universiti Sains Malaysia researchers found that the outlet blamed the United States as the driving force for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”