The website was also known in English as Multidimensional News,[2] which is the literal translation of its Chinese name.

[7] According to Radio France Internationale in 2018, the site has been accused of having a pro-Beijing view point and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

[8] It was viewed as one of the independent Chinese language media outlets in the United States that later were taken over by pro-Beijing businessmen.

[9] Duowei News, whose original domain name was chinesenewsnet.com,[10] was founded by Ho Pin (何频) on 11 January 1999,[11] who used to work for a Chinese state-run newspaper but left due to negative feelings towards the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

[9] Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2002 and 2007 respectively.