Duowei News Explained

Duowei News should not be confused with DW News.

Duowei News
Type:News website
Industry:Media
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Founded:11 January 1999
Founder:Ho Pin
Hq Location City:Beijing
Hq Location Country:People's Republic of China
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Owner:Yu Pun-hoi
Parent:Sino-I Technology Limited

Duowei News, originally named Chinese News Net,[1] was a Chinese language news website established in 1999 based in New York City, United States. The website was also known in English as Multidimensional News,[2] which is the literal translation of its Chinese name. It specialized in Chinese political news.[3] [4]

Duowei News was blocked in Mainland China. In 2013, Jason Q. Ng of China Digital Times and Citizen Lab[5] [6] considered the outlet to be critical of mainland China and the PRC government's policies.[7] According to Radio France Internationale in 2018, the site has been accused of having a pro-Beijing view point and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda.[8] 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 domain name was chinesenewsnet.com,[9] was founded by Ho Pin (何频) on 11 January 1999,[10] who used to work for a Chinese state-run newspaper but left due to negative feelings towards the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.[11]

On June 27, 2004, Duowei's new domain name, dwnews.com,[12] 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[13] who was considered to be pro-Beijing.[14]

Ho Pin later published Mingjing News. Duowei had a news bureau in Beijing.[4] [15] According to a Hoover Institution report, after the 2009 sale, Duowei moved its headquarters to Beijing.

Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2002 and 2007 respectively.[16]

Duowei News closed on 26 April 2022.[17]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: China (Republic : 1949-). Legislative Yuan. The Legislative Yuan Gazette. 2003. Legislative Yuan Secretariat.
  2. Book: Wang Hui. The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity. 1 August 2011. Verso Books. 978-1-84467-813-6. 223–.
  3. News: Will China Crush Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution'?. Melinda. Liu. Politico Magazine. October 2014. 2017-06-26. 2020-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200319225020/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/will-china-crush-hong-kongs-umbrella-revolution-111533_Page2.html. dead.
  4. News: Hidden news . The Economist . 11 February 2012.
  5. Web site: November 2015. Politics, Rumors and Ambiguity: Tracking Censorship on WeChat's Public Accounts Platform. 2020-10-29. New York University Shanghai. en-US.
  6. Web site: Jason Q. Ng. 2020-10-29. The New Press. en.
  7. Book: Jason Q. Ng. Blocked on Weibo: What Gets Suppressed on China s Version of Twitter (And Why). 6 August 2013. The New Press. 978-1-59558-885-2. 134–.
  8. Web site: 2018-12-06 . 多維批習文章又刪又換 學者稱做法不可接受但證與官方關係密切 . 2022-05-13 . RFI - 法國國際廣播電台 . zh-Hant.
  9. Book: Ming Xia. The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance. 30 October 2007. Routledge. 978-1-134-27241-9. 294–.
  10. Web site: ChineseNewsNet.com. August 1, 2020. WHOIS.
  11. News: Exile media soaring over China's leadership scandal. Barbara. Demick. The Seattle Times. 26 May 2012. 2017-06-26.
  12. Web site: dwnews.com. August 1, 2020. WHOIS.
  13. News: Nan Hai casts net over more telcos. The Standard Finance. 2016-07-06. 2017-06-26.
  14. Web site: Diamond . Larry . Schell . Orville . November 29, 2018 . China's Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance . February 21, 2024 . Hoover Institution.
  15. Web site: http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/jiangweiping/jiang-01112010100601.html . zh:港商收购多维网大本营为何迁至北京? . Radio Free Asia . 5 January 2010 . Jiang Weiping . Jiang Weiping . zh.
  16. News: A Publisher in Exile Gets the Big Scoops on China's Elite. Forsythe. Michael. The New York Times. 17 June 2016. 2017-06-26.
  17. News: 2022-04-26 . 多維新聞網宣布停止運作 遣散員工 . . 2022-04-26.

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