In Xi Jinping's China, is Chairman Mao back?

Dec 26, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability
  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

25% Positive

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"Hu's 10 years as leader saw social security and healthcare spending expand roughly fivefold."
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24% Conservative
"Indeed, at the same time as deriding an isolationist China, Western critics attack it for being more active internationally.Xi's Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilisation Initiative are presented, when mentioned at all, as threats."
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16% Conservative
"Xi has promoted a volunteering culture, exhorting students to spend their holidays in poorer rural regions working on development projects, and twinned rich areas with poor ones with legal obligations for the former to invest in the latter."
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4% Conservative
"The negative impact of marketisation on workers' rights was recognised by the Hu government, and these were significantly strengthened by the Labour Contract Law of 2007."
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Hu's 10 years as leader saw social security and healthcare spending expand roughly fivefold.
58% : "Indeed, at the same time as deriding an isolationist China, Western critics attack it for being more active internationally.Xi's Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilisation Initiative are presented, when mentioned at all, as threats.
52% : Xi has promoted a volunteering culture, exhorting students to spend their holidays in poorer rural regions working on development projects, and twinned rich areas with poor ones with legal obligations for the former to invest in the latter.
45% : The negative impact of marketisation on workers' rights was recognised by the Hu government, and these were significantly strengthened by the Labour Contract Law of 2007.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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