November 11, 2025 – China Headlines

Story gist: Chinese state media published a CCTV commentary urging efforts to build a sports powerhouse. People’s Daily featured an article on President Xi Jinping’s concern for athletes.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like People’s Daily frame the story positively, emphasizing President Xi’s deep care for athletes and national sports ambitions with warm, supportive tone. Center- and right-leaning perspectives are absent, omitting potential neutral analysis of policy implementation or critical views on state-driven sports initiatives.

Story gist: The eighth China International Import Expo concluded in Shanghai. The event recorded an intended transaction amount of 83.49 billion USD.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like China Daily frame the expo as showcasing China’s confident leadership in global openness, emphasizing national pride and responsibility. Center-leaning Sina Finance highlights Shanghai’s appeal as a business hub, focusing on practical economic opportunities. Right-leaning perspectives are absent, omitting potential critiques on trade practices or U.S.-China economic tensions.

Story gist: Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Hainan and Guangdong provinces for inspections. He attended the opening ceremony of the 15th National Games.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like People’s Daily frame the story with a documentary-style title emphasizing Xi’s leadership journey, using reverent tone and focus on policy reforms. Right-leaning China News Service adopts a poetic, expansive title highlighting reform and openness, with narrative emphasis on national unity and achievements. Center-leaning perspectives are absent, leaving no neutral, fact-only coverage without promotional elements.

Story gist: Japanese politician Sanae Takaichi made remarks on Taiwan. China lodged a solemn representation and strong protest with Japan.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets, like China Net, frame the story as Japan’s erroneous interference, emphasizing China’s justified protest without Japanese context. Center outlets, such as RFI, highlight the shock in Japanese opinion from China’s aggressive ‘beheading’ rhetoric, providing balanced international analysis. Right-leaning sources, like Yue Xuexi, stress Taiwan as China’s internal affair barring external meddling, omitting Takaichi’s specifics to reinforce nationalist sovereignty.