1. History

2. Editorial stance

3. Controversies
     Hong Kong   Australia   United States  

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

The Global Times ({{zh|s=环球时报|t=環球時報|p=Huánqiú Shíbào}}) is a daily Chinese tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the People's Daily newspaper, focusing on international issues from the Chinese government's perspective.^[1][2]

History

Established as a Chinese language publication in 1993, an English language version was launched on the 20 April 2009^[3] as part of a Chinese campaign costing 45 billion yuan ($6.6 billion) to compete with overseas media.^[4]

While the Chinese-language version strongly focuses on international issues, the English-language version reports more on China's domestic events.

The English-language version of the newspaper also has launched two local sections, Metro Beijing^[6] since September 2009 and Metro Shanghai^[7] since April 2010, in the two largest Chinese metropolises, in an effort to provide more information to local readers.

The Global Times launched its US edition on Feb. 20, 2013. It is the first daily newspaper from China to launch a US edition simultaneously in Chinese and English. The US edition of the Global Times has 24 pages in its English version and 16 pages in its Chinese version.^[8]

Editorial stance

Although the Chinese-language version has been accused of having a strong pro-government slant,^[5] and of attracting a strongly nationalistic readership,^[9][10] the English-language version has been described by one of its editors as taking a less strident approach.^[11] The English-language edition also contains approximately 20 "foreign experts", who are involved with assigning stories and copyediting, "as long as the coverage is not about politics".^[12]

Controversies

According to Richard Burger, a former editor at Global Times, in the wake of the arrest of Ai Weiwei, the Chinese staff of the Global Times were ordered^[13] to conduct an "astroturfing" campaign against Ai Weiwei in favour of the Chinese government's criticism of Ai as a "maverick".^[14]

According to the Foreign Policy magazine, the Global Times differentiates itself from other Chinese newspapers in part through its more populist approach to journalism, coupled with a tendency to court controversy.^[9] Despite its official stance some reports and editorials by the Global Times are more neutral and cover more content that other Chinese media typically refrain from touching. The Global Times and Beijing Youth Daily were the only two media that reported the Ferrari car crash of Ling Jihua’s son, though briefly and the online articles soon deleted, in March 2012.

Following Japan’s 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Global Times published series of comments and advertisements in support of Japan.^[15][16]{{dubious|reason=How exactly is this a "controversy"? I should think writing anything BUT positive coverage of Japan at the time would have been controversial.|date=November 2017}}

The Global Times also published articles that argue there is no resurgence of Japanese militarism and China is misperceiving Japan.^[17]{{or inline|reason=You can't cite one Huanqiu opinion piece for the claim that they "published articles".|date=November 2017}} For this reason the Global Times has been repeatedly criticized by leftist scholars.{{who|date=June 2016}} The Global Times sometimes hold different stances from other major Chinese media. When the People’s Daily stressed tighter control of the Internet, an editorial of the Global Times denounced acts to impose unreasonable control onto the people, commonly seen as an act of standing up to the People’s Daily.

Hong Kong

On 5 June 2016 Lancôme cancelled a promotional concert by Hong Kong pro-democracy singer Denise Ho that was scheduled to be held on 19 June in Sheung Wan.^[18] This action was taken in response to a boycott campaign launched by the Communist Party-controlled Global Times, which denigrated the Cantopop star for supposedly advocating Hong Kong and Tibet independence.^[18] Lancôme also added, in a Facebook post, that Ho is not a spokesperson for the brand.^[19] In addition to her singing career, Ho is an outspoken advocate for democracy in Hong Kong.^[20] The Tibet allegation appeared to have stemmed from Ho's May 2016 meeting with the Dalai Lama.^[18] The cancellation drew a heavy backlash in Hong Kong.^[18][20] Some Lancôme shops in Hong Kong were shut down during the protests.^[21] Listerine, another brand that Ho represents, retained the singer despite the fact that the Global Times also criticized that company hiring Ho as its public face in Hong Kong.^[18]

Australia

United States

In response to Rex Tillerson's mid-January 2017 comments (prior to his confirmation as US Secretary of State) on blocking access to man-made islands in the South China Sea, the Global Times warned of a "large-scale war" between the U.S. and China, saying: "Unless Washington plans to wage a large-scale war in the South China Sea, any other approaches to prevent Chinese access to the islands will be foolish."^[24][25]

See also

• List of newspapers in the People's Republic of China
• Media of the People's Republic of China

References

External links

• Global Times (in English)
• Huanqiu Online (in Chinese)
• [https://globaltimes.tumblr.com Global Times on Tumblr] (in English)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131013005608/http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/663853/China-is-complicated.aspx China is complicated, an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Global Times by Southern People Weekly] (in English)
• A cocktail of conspiracies delivered daily John Garnaut December 18, 2010
• [https://www.economist.com/china/2018/09/20/chinas-global-times-plays-a-peculiar-role China’s Global Times plays a peculiar role]. The Economist.

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