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 as Multidimensional News, and specialized in Chinese political news. Duowei News was blocked in

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. In 2013, Jason Q. Ng of

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and

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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.

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. In 2009, the website was sold to the Hong Kong media mogul

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. Ho Pin now publishes ''

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''. Duowei has a news bureau in

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. Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the

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and

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

References

External links

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