China Daily
China Daily is China's largest English-language newspaper, published from Beijing and owned by the Communist Party of China's publicity apparatus. It provides national and international news aimed at domestic and foreign readers and reflects official government perspectives. It is one of the country's principal state-run English-language outlets.
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Editorial perspective of China Daily
China Daily is positioned toward the editorial center, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified.
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