Complex sentence: According to David Ownby, director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal and the author of "Falun Gong and the Future of China", "Epoch Times" was set up by Falun Gong practitioners with their own money.
Split into simpler sentences: According to David Ownby, director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal and the author of "Falun Gong and the Future of China", "Epoch Times" has close ties to the Falun Gong. Ownby considered the newspaper is set up by Falun Gong practitioners with their own money.