Xinhua News media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Xinhua News on the left. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Xinhua News biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Xinhua News on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Xinhua News left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Xinhua News on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Xinhua News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Xinhua News are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Xinhua News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Xinhua News’s own report linked underneath.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that social media has become less hostile and experienced fewer bots following Ukrainian attacks on Yandex data centers. Cloudflare data shows a significant drop in YandexBot traffic after drone strikes on Yandex data centers.
Xinhua News reported it asRussian IT giant Yandex resuming services following Ukrainian drone attacks (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has welcomed an announced energy truce between Russia and Ukraine but expressed doubt that Russia will abide by it. She stated that the truce would benefit Russia more than Ukraine and called for continued pressure on Moscow.
Xinhua News reported it asFlash: Trump says there is an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Germany has announced a new aid package for Ukraine valued at over 1.3 billion euros. The package includes military support, with a portion designated for interceptor drones, and aid for Ukraine's energy sector. President Zelensky and Chancellor Merz met in Kyiv on October 4, 2026.
Xinhua News reported it asZelensky, Merz agree on 1.3-bln-euro support package for Ukraine (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv in early October 2026, pledging ongoing support for Ukraine. The visit occurred amidst Germany's energy crisis and domestic political challenges for Merz's party, drawing criticism from some German politicians.
Xinhua News reported it asZelensky, Merz agree on 1.3-bln-euro support package for Ukraine (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the Valdai Discussion Club's plenary session on October 1, 2026. The annual meeting, held in the Moscow region, will include representatives from 40 countries and discussions on Ukraine and the United States.
Xinhua News reported it asPutin warns against seeking Russia's "strategic defeat," calls for stable multipolar world order (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered security measures for the Kaliningrad region in response to perceived threats from NATO. Kremlin advisor Nikolai Patrushev stated that any aggressive military action against the exclave would be regretted by NATO countries.
Xinhua News reported it asPutin warns against seeking Russia's "strategic defeat," calls for stable multipolar world order (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the newly convened State Duma to "do everything for our victory" in Ukraine. He also urged lawmakers to approve a balanced budget for the next three years that maintains economic stability while supporting social programmes.
Xinhua News reported it asPutin calls on new State Duma to prioritize defense, social obligations (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
A tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile, causing minor injuries to two crew members. The UK Maritime Trade Operations reported the incident, and authorities are investigating.
Xinhua News reported it asLPG tanker hit by debris from unknown projectiles near Strait of Hormuz: UKMTO (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Russia is increasingly using modified RM48U training missiles as ballistic weapons against Ukraine. These missiles, adapted from air defence systems, accounted for more than half of Russia's ballistic and hypersonic launches in July and early August, according to reports.
Xinhua News reported it asPoland joins European anti-ballistic missile coalition (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Poland has joined an anti-ballistic missile coalition with Ukraine and other European allies, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. The coalition aims to develop a common European ballistic missile defense system.
Xinhua News reported it asPoland joins European anti-ballistic missile coalition (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
Xinhua News reported it asJakarta airport temporarily closed after volcanic ash detected, flights disrupted (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
Xinhua News reported it asJakarta airport temporarily closed after volcanic ash detected, flights disrupted (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on August 31, 2026, in Bishkek. The leaders discussed deepening bilateral relations and agreed to increase trade to $30 billion.
Xinhua News reported it asXi Meets Uzbek President (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump announced an agreement with Venezuela granting the United States majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of the country's oil reserves. Trump described the deal as the largest in world history, predicting it would increase US reserves and reduce fuel prices.
Xinhua News reported it asTrump says U.S. has reached agreement with Venezuela on "biggest oil deal in world history" (opens Xinhua News in a new tab)
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.
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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
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Who owns it
- State ownershipunknowndirect owner
- ChinaGovernmentdirect owner
- State Council of the People's Republic of ChinaGovernmentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Beijing, China
- Official site
- xinhuanet.com
- Seen publishing on
- xinhuanet.com
- 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
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 29 August 2026
12 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 8 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Xinhua News ran the story anyway.
Across the 14 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Xinhua News’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 2 days after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 13 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 13 October 2026. Ratings pulled 28 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Xinhua News, 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.
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