Is Global Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Global Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Global Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Global Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Global Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Global Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Global Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Global Times are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Global Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Global Times’s own report linked underneath.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared an 'economic D-Day' against Iran, vowing to impose the 'toughest sanctions in history' to sever all financial lifelines supporting the regime. Oil prices fell following the announcement.
Global Times reported it asChina will not play along with the US’ ‘reckless games’ on the Iran issue: Global Times editorial (opens Global Times in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
- People's Daily PressGovernmentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Beijing, China
- Official site
- globaltimes.cn
- Seen publishing on
- globaltimes.cn
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 24 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Global Times ran the story anyway.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Global Times: its report arrived a median of 4 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 24 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 24 August 2026. Ratings pulled 24 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Global Times, also publishing from China, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Global Times publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.