Is Xinhua biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Xinhua on the left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Xinhua biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Xinhua on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Xinhua left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Xinhua on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Xinhua reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Xinhua are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleftCheck it
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
- Chinese Communist PartyGovernmentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Beijing, China
- Official site
- news.cn
- Seen publishing on
- english.news.cn, news.cn
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
2 of those reports were 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 Xinhua ran the story anyway.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Xinhua’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 14 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- XinhuaLeftMixed factualityPoland, U.S. hold talks on establishing permanent American military bases (opens Xinhua in a new tab)
Beijing, ChinaOwner: Chinese Communist Party
Our report: Poland and US hold talks on permanent military base
- XinhuaLeftMixed factualityNetanyahu, "Board of Peace" discuss Gaza disarmament as Israeli strikes continue (opens Xinhua in a new tab)
Beijing, China
Our report: Mladenov and Netanyahu discuss Gaza disarmament plan with Hamas
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Xinhua, 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.
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.