International Daily News

{{Short description|Newspaper}}

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| name = International Daily News

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| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = 1981 in Monterey Park

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| founders = Lee Ya-ping
Chen Tao

| owners = Java Post Group

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| language = Chinese

| circulation = 50,000 (National)

| headquarters = Jl. Gunung Sahari XI no. 23, Jakarta, Indonesia

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| website = {{URL|www.guojiribao.com/}}{{cite book|author=Leo Suryadinata|title=Rise of China and the Chinese Overseas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ax1qDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT132|date=26 January 2017|publisher=Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.|isbn=978-981-4762-66-3|pages=132–}}
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International Daily News ({{lang-zh|t=國際日報|s=国际日报|p=Guójì rìbào|first=t}}), also known as Guoji Ribao,{{cite book|author=Franklin Ng|title=The Taiwanese Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPzsB_wJQW0C&pg=PA73|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29762-5|pages=73–}} is a major Chinese-language newspaper in North America and Indonesia. It is a pro-mainland newspaper,{{Cite web|last=Hua|first=Vanessa|date=August 3, 2004|title=Newspaper war in the Bay Area / Ming Pao becomes 6th Chinese-language daily|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Newspaper-war-in-the-Bay-Area-2736641.php|access-date=2021-07-19|website=San Francisco Chronicle|language=en-US}} sold in several major Chinatowns.

The newspaper was founded and owned by Lee Ya-ping (李亚频) and Chen Tao (陈韬){{cite book|author=Zhang Yanxian|title=Essays on Postwar Taiwan Media and Transitional Justice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQyDDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT21|date=31 August 2008|publisher=Wu San Lien Foundation for Taiwan Historical Materials|isbn=978-986-84293-1-4|pages=21–}} in 1981 in the city of Monterey Park, California.{{cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83003483/|title=About International Daily News|access-date=2020-07-29|publisher=Library of Congress}} On October 1, 1995, Ted Sioeng, an Indonesian-born entrepreneur, and his family bought the International Daily News,{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB871240703597991500|title=Funding Probe Barely Looks At One China-Linked Donor|date=Aug 11, 1997|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|author=Phil Kuntz and Glenn R. Simpson}} paying between $3 and $4 million for the paper. This purchase was consummated on July 1, 1996.{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/1-12.htm|title=Ted Sioeng, His Family, and His Business Interests|date=March 10, 1998|publisher=Federation of American Scientists}}

In contrast to its competitor, the World Journal, the International Daily News appeals to mainland Chinese immigrants in North America due to its much less hostile attitude toward mainland China/Chinese (although in the mid/late-1990s, the World Journal significantly moderated its anti-China line).{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Lee Ya-ping, a Chinese American businesswoman and the owner and publisher of International Daily News, was jailed by the Taiwanese government under the Kuomintang regime on 17 September 1985 during a visit to Taiwan, charged with spreading propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party,David Holley.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-18-mn-6073-story.html|title=She Could Face Death Penalty : Taiwan Arrests Publisher of California Newspaper|date=Sep 18, 1985|work=The Los Angeles Times}} because she was suspected of publishing articles supporting Beijing's overtures for Chinese unification. Eventually, Lee was released nine days later, under pressure from the United States Congress.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-20-me-6379-story.html|title=U.S. Protests Taiwan's Arrest of Publisher - Los Angeles Times|date=Sep 20, 1985|work=The Los Angeles Times}}

On September 2, 2001, International Daily News and Java Post collaborated to bundle and publish the Wen Wei Po (Southeast Asia Edition), an 8-page daily edition, which was launched simultaneously in Jakarta, Surabaya, Pontianak, and Medan.{{cite web|url=http://pdf.wenweipo.com/os/overseas-2.php|title=Hong Kong Wen Wei Po Southeast Asia Edition|accessdate=2020-07-29|publisher=Wen Wei Po}}