Xinhua

Xinhua is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style. In China, Global Times and CGTN are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Xinhua beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read Xinhua beside another title from China and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so Xinhua is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in China headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because Xinhua 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.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-07-28. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.