Guancha

Guancha.cn
Native name	观察者网
Type of site	News website
Available in	Chinese
Headquarters	Shanghai
Country of origin	China
Owner	Shanghai Guanchazhe Information Technology Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Chunqiu Development Strategy Research Institute;
Founder(s)	Eric X. Li
Editor	Jin Zhongwei
Key people	Zhang Weiwei, Zhang Wenmu
URL	www.guancha.cn
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	2012
Current status	Active

Guancha.cn (Chinese: 观察者网; lit. 'Observer Net') is a Chinese news site based in Shanghai,^[1]^[2] founded by Eric X. Li, a Stanford-educated venture capitalist and a political scientist at the Fudan University.^[3] Guancha.cn has been categorized in an Amsterdam University Press study as a privately owned internet platform outside of state-controlled media^[4] and is noted for its pro-government and West-skeptical views, having been described as a nationalist website,^[5] with Agence France-Presse and the Conversation calling it ultranationalist.^[6]^[7]

^ "China wants an even more dominant state monopoly on the media". Quartz. 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
^ Langley, William; McMorrow, Ryan (2021-12-23). "Intel apologises for banning use of components from Xinjiang". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2021-12-23. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
^ "Eric Li – World Policy Conference". World Policy Conference. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
^ Lu, Yingdan; Pan, Jennifer (2022-02-01). "The Pervasive Presence of Chinese Government Content on Douyin Trending Videos". Computational Communication Research. 4 (1). Stanford University: Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.5117/CCR2022.2.002.LU. ISSN 2665-9085.
^ "When China wants to be feared". The Economist. October 2, 2021. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-10-11. Guancha, a nationalist website, created a hashtag mocking the White House statement, inspiring social-media posts that have been read over 300m times.
^ "Communist Party emerges from shadows during Hong Kong crackdown". France 24. AFP News. 2021-07-10. Retrieved 2022-11-01. In an interview published Wednesday by ultra-nationalist mainland media outlet Guancha.cn...
^ "Republicans believe Tim Walz has been 'groomed' by China. But how does China view him?". The Conversation. August 22, 2024. Retrieved September 18, 2024. An ultra-nationalist outlet, Guancha.cn, contacted his former Chinese colleague from Foshan, who described Walz as "very nice" and "well-liked".