The newspaper has been described as part of the media outreach of Falun Gong, an anti-communist new religious movement, although this has been contested by the paper's Australian editorial team.

[1] The Vision China Times Australia newspaper has distributions in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Gold Coast.

... We consider it our duty to provide impartial news helping to bridge the cultural and political divide between the East and West.

"[6] In 2019, a joint Fairfax and Four Corners investigation found that the Chinese Consulate-General in Sydney pressured the Georges River Council to withdraw Vision China Times Australia's sponsorship for a local community event.

[11][12] In 2020, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation investigation said it found evidence that Vision China Times "is closely affiliated with the religious group Falun Gong, a new religious movement that seeks to bring an end to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)", that it was sharing a "business address with Decode China, a Chinese language news website established under a funding arrangement by the U.S. State Department", and that it operates under an annual financial contract with the global Vision Times network, "whose president is also the spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Association in New York, and the chair of another Falun Gong organisation called Quit the CCP."

David Brophy of Sydney University described Vision China Times as "pushing an extremely conservative right-wing viewpoint on global politics, a very black and white view of the world in which China represents evil, America represents all that is good and essentially the source of human freedom," and questioned its motives and independence: "There's clearly a question as to the nature of this publication, its independence, its relationship to a religious and political organisation".

ASPI also noted that Chief Editor Yan Xia denies that Vision China Times takes direction from the Falun Gong.