'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.

Guancha's official account has 7.46 million fans on the video sharing website Bilibili, frequented mainly by young people, as of September 2023.

The website's motto is stated as "Chinese heart, global perspective; understand the world from here; independent and responsible".

[citation needed] In 2013, a number of techno-nationalists calling themselves the "Industrial Party" joined the site and have influenced it.