Duowei News (), originally named Chinese News Net, was a

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news website established in 1999 based in

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, United States. The website was also known in English as Multidimensional News, which is the literal translation of its Chinese name. It specialized in Chinese political news. Duowei News was blocked in

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considered the outlet to be critical of mainland China and the PRC government's policies. According to

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in 2018, the site has been accused of having a pro-Beijing view point and promoting

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propaganda. It was viewed as one of the independent Chinese language media outlets in the United States that later were taken over by pro-Beijing businessmen.

History

Duowei News, whose original

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was chinesenewsnet.com, was founded by Ho Pin (何频) on 11 January 1999, who used to work for a Chinese state-run newspaper but left due to negative feelings towards the

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. On June 27, 2004, Duowei's new domain name, dwnews.com, was created. Duowei continued to be an online independent Chinese-language media website for years until 2009 when the website was sold to the Hong Kong media mogul Yu Pun-hoi who was considered to be pro-Beijing. Ho Pin later published '' Mingjing News''. Duowei had a news bureau in

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report, after the 2009 sale, Duowei moved its headquarters to Beijing. Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the 16th and

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in 2002 and 2007 respectively. Duowei News closed on 26 April 2022.

References

External links

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Mingjing News
American news websites Chinese news websites Defunct websites Internet properties established in 1999 1999 establishments in New York (state) Internet properties disestablished in 2022 2022 disestablishments in China