[1][5]: 1858  According to former editor Anthony Lawrance, Taiwan News opposes autocracies and the People's Republic of China.

[5] China News was founded on 6 June 1949 in Taipei by James Wei,[6] a journalist with close ties to the KMT and former employee of the Ministry of Information.

[7][8] China News ran into financial difficulties in 1996 and received capital injection from I-Mei Foods, but the management of the newspaper was unchanged.

[6] After the change in ownership, Taiwan News increased its page count and lowered staff wages.

[11]: 149  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.