In 2006, it began publishing weekly print versions in major U.S. cities and Australia (as Vision China Times) where large Chinese communities exist.
Vision Times is one of the news organizations referred to as "our media" by Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong, a new religious movement that opposes the Chinese Communist Party.
[4] In the same year, David Brophy wrote that Vision Times' general manager is part of the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's National Foundation for Australia-China Relations.
He claims the purpose of Vision Times was to address the issue of the shrinking space for independent Chinese voices in the United States.
ABC's Background Briefing noted that Vision Times had also published an unsourced report that former Chinese political leaders were interested in eating human brains.