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| Type | Daily newspaper (Weekdays) |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | People's Daily |
| Publisher | People's Daily |
| Editor | Hu Xijin |
| Founded | 1993, (Chinese edition) 2009, (English Edition) |
| Political alignment | Pro-Communist |
| Language | Chinese and English |
| Headquarters | No.2 Jintai Xilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100733, People's Republic of China |
| Circulation | 100,000 (copies printed Mon-Fri) |
| Official website | www.globaltimes.cn (English) www.huanqiu.com (Simplified Chinese) |
The Global Times (simplified Chinese: 环球时报; traditional Chinese: 環球時報; pinyin: Huánqiú Shíbào) is a daily Chinese newspaper produced under the auspices of the official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily,[1] focusing on international issues.
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History
Established first as a Chinese language publication in 1993, an English language version was launched on April 20, 2009[2] as part of a Chinese campaign costing 45 billion yuan ($6.6 billion) to compete with overseas media.[3]
Hu Xijin, the editor of the the English-language version, has stated that he expects it to make a loss of 20 million yuan in the first year.[4]
Editorial stance
Although the Chinese-language version has often been accused of having a strong pro-government slant,[4] and of attracting a strongly nationalistic readership,[5] the English-language version has been described as taking a less strident approach, even to the extent of including foreign writers critical of the Chinese government amongst their editorial team.[6]
However, on June 2 and June 5, 2009, the paper was the first in 20 years in mainland China to break the taboo on addressing the subject of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and subsequent massacre. Whilst they did not actually describe in any detail what occurred, the two articles (Evolution of Chinese intellectuals' thought over two decades and Prosperity tangible along Chang'an Avenue) talked of the legacy of the protests as still being a sensitive issue in China: "Twenty years after the June 4 Tiananmen incident, public discussion about what happened that day is almost nonexistent in mainstream society on the Chinese mainland", acknowledging that information on the subject is difficult to access due to government internet censorship.
See also
References
- ^ Beijing-based newspaper Global Times launches English edition, People's Daily, April 20, 2009
- ^ "About Us", Global Times
- ^ Global Times Breaches China’s Official Media Silence on Tiananmen, Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2009
- ^ a b China defies media cuts and closures with new newspaper launch, The Guardian, April 20, 2009
- ^ “Patriotic” Voices? Comments from the Global Times Online Forum, China Digital Times, May 4, 2008
- ^ Richard Burger on being a foreign editor at the Global Times Danwei.org, May 8, 2009
External links
- Global Times (in English)
- Global Times (in Chinese)
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