South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post is a Hong Kong-based English-language daily newspaper covering news from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Asia. It provides political, business, and current-affairs reporting for regional and international readers. Owned by Alibaba Group, it is one of Asia's most prominent English-language news outlets.
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Is South China Morning Post left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists South China Morning Post as Center within China's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side. In China, Global Times and CGTN are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open South China Morning Post beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read South China Morning Post beside another title from China and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two China dailies covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are South China Morning Post's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because South China Morning Post is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning China title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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