Vision China Times Australia is a Chinese language newspaper owned by the Vision Times Media (Australia) Corporation Pty Ltd. Vision China Times Australia was established as a weekly newspaper in Australia in July 2006, based on a widely-read overseas Chinese news website, secretchina.com, which was launched in 2001 in the United States and is known as Vision Times or Kanzhongguo. The newspaper has been described as part of the media outreach of Falun Gong, an anti-communist new religious movement  . In 2020, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation investigation said it found evidence that Vision China Times "is closely affiliated with the religious group Falun Gong, a new religious movement that seeks to bring an end to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)", that it was sharing a "business address with Decode China, a Chinese language news website established under a funding arrangement by the U.S. State Department", and that it operates under an annual financial contract with the global Vision Times network, "whose president is also the spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Association in New York, and the chair of another Falun Gong organisation called Quit the CCP." The report also said that "Falun Gong's founder Li Hongzhi refers to Vision Times as 'our media.'" David Brophy of Sydney University described Vision China Times as "pushing an extremely conservative right-wing viewpoint on global politics, a very black and white view of the world in which China represents evil, America represents all that is good and essentially the source of human freedom," and questioned its motives and independence: "There's clearly a question as to the nature of this publication, its independence, its relationship to a religious and political organisation". In response, Vision China Times told ABC that "We are not a FLG media", and that apart from a payment for yearly news sources, it had no operational or financial deals with Vision Times or Falun Gong. The operator of Vision China Times, Vision Times Media Australia, claimed the ABC had wrongly tied the company to a US publisher of a similar name  . However, ABC found that 12 staff members of Vision China Times had worked for Falun Gong's Epoch Times  .
Vision China Times Australia is a Chinese language newspaper owned by the Vision Times Media (Australia) Corporation Pty Ltd. Vision China Times Australia was established as a weekly newspaper in Australia in July 2006, based on a widely-read overseas Chinese news website, secretchina.com, which was launched in 2001 in the United States and is known as Vision Times or Kanzhongguo. The newspaper has been described as part of the media outreach of Falun Gong, an anti-communist new religious movement , however, such connection has been denied by the chief editor of the publisher . In 2020, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation investigation said it found evidence that Vision China Times "is closely affiliated with the religious group Falun Gong, a new religious movement that seeks to bring an end to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)", that it was sharing a "business address with Decode China, a Chinese language news website established under a funding arrangement by the U.S. State Department", and that it operates under an annual financial contract with the global Vision Times network, "whose president is also the spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Association in New York, and the chair of another Falun Gong organisation called Quit the CCP." The report also said that "Falun Gong's founder Li Hongzhi refers to Vision Times as 'our media.'" David Brophy of Sydney University described Vision China Times as "pushing an extremely conservative right-wing viewpoint on global politics, a very black and white view of the world in which China represents evil, America represents all that is good and essentially the source of human freedom," and questioned its motives and independence: "There's clearly a question as to the nature of this publication, its independence, its relationship to a religious and political organisation". In response, Vision China Times told ABC that "We are not a FLG media", and that apart from a payment for yearly news sources, it had no operational or financial deals with Vision Times or Falun Gong. The operator of Vision China Times, Vision Times Media Australia, claimed the ABC had wrongly tied the company to a US publisher of a similar name and stated the ABC misrepresented their editorial independence and business structure . However, ABC found that 12 staff members of Vision China Times had worked for Falun Gong's Epoch Times . Yan Xia, the chief editor, maintains there have been no interactions with Falun Gong groups or the US-based Vision Times on editorial content during their tenure, nor would they allow these sorts of attempts from any group .
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, however, such connection has been denied by the chief editor of the publisher
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and stated the ABC misrepresented their editorial independence and business structure
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. Yan Xia, the chief editor, maintains there have been no interactions with Falun Gong groups or the US-based Vision Times on editorial content during their tenure, nor would they allow these sorts of attempts from any group