Xinhua
Xinhua is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China, founded in 1931 and headquartered in Beijing. It is the country's largest news organization, supplying text, photo, and video coverage to Chinese and international media, and operates the news.cn portal, which presents its reporting in Chinese and several foreign languages.
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Is Xinhua left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Xinhua is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style. Crosswire groups China outlets into left, center and right so you can read the same day's events from more than one vantage point: seeing Xinhua beside outlets of a different orientation makes editorial choices — which stories lead, which framing is used, what gets omitted — far easier to spot than reading any single source alone.
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