China News was founded on 6 June 1949 in
Taipei by
James Wei, a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the
Ministry of Information. The newspaper was established to cater for foreign residents and the local population in Taiwan.
China News ran into financial difficulties in 1996 and received capital injection from I-Mei Foods, but the management of the newspaper was unchanged. By 1998, 63 percent of
Taiwan News' readership were local readers and the rest were businesspeople, diplomats, academics, teachers and students from outside Taiwan. Former editor Anthony Lawrance said in 2001 that
Taiwan News mainly republished
wire stories and had few articles with original reporting due to a lack of financial resources to hire English-speaking journalists and produce good translations from Chinese news articles, the high turnover of foreign editorial staff and the absence of an English speaking environment in Taiwan. In 2015,
Taiwan News became an all-digital publication when it ended all print editions. ==See also==