The China Press
Owner(s)Asian Culture and Media Group
Founded1990 (1990)
Political alignmentChinese Communist Party
LanguageChinese (in Simplified Chinese characters)
Headquarters15 East 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
U.S.
ISSN1051-0125
OCLC number21743712
Websitewww.uschinapress.com

The China Press (Chinese: 侨报), commonly called Qiaobao, is a Chinese-language newspaper published in the United States.[1]

The China Press was founded in 1990 by personnel dispatched to the U.S. from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and its China News Service to counter negative perceptions of the Chinese government following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.[2] The China Press is formally owned by Asian Culture and Media Group, which also owns SinoVision.[2]

Former China News Service journalist, Xie Yining, served as chairman of The China Press until his killing by another newspaper employee, Zhong Qi Chen, in 2018.[3][4]

According to academic Wanning Sun, The China Press, along with The Epoch Times, World Journal, Sing Tao, and Ming Pao, are the major newspapers serving overseas Chinese communities in the United States and Canada.[5] Unlike other newspapers linked to Chinese state media, The China Press has been noted as not having registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).[6]

Reception

Chinese Communist Party influence

A 2001 report on Chinese media censorship by the Jamestown Foundation cited The China Press as one of four major overseas Chinese newspapers directly or indirectly controlled by the Chinese government.[7]

The dominant Chinese media vehicle in America is the newspaper," wrote the report's lead author Mei Duzhe. "Four major Chinese newspapers are found in the U.S.—World Journal, Sing Tao Daily, Ming Pao Daily News, and The China Press. Of these four, three are either directly or indirectly controlled by the government of Mainland China, while the fourth (run out of Taiwan) has recently begun bowing to pressure from the Beijing government.

Other scholars and journalists have noted pro-Chinese Communist Party content in The China Press.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (December 21, 2017). "Beijing Builds Its Influence in the American Media". Foreign Policy. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Diamond, Larry; Schell, Orville (2019-08-01). China's Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance. Hoover Press. pp. 106, 107, 120. ISBN 978-0-8179-2286-3. OCLC 1104533323. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
  3. ↑ Marantos, Jeanette (November 28, 2018). "Yining Xie, 58 - The Homicide Report". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  4. ↑ Gonzales, Rub (2023-03-31). "El Monte man pleads guilty to killing boss in Alhambra newspaper office". San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
  5. ↑ Sun, Wanning (2009-03-04). Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-26359-2. OCLC 1043554961.
  6. ↑ Groll, Elias (February 6, 2019). "Chinese Media Targeted in Foreign Agent Crackdown". Foreign Policy. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  7. ↑ Duzhe, Mei (November 21, 2001). "How China's Government is Attempting to Control Chinese Media in America". China Brief. Jamestown Foundation. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
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