Idk why people are down voting you. Yes its a Hong Kong based publication but it's been owned by Alibaba since 2016.

Absolutely calls into question the veracity of the claims and makes addressing the authors sources more important.

There's no free press anywhere. The British press in the 1800s was owned by the merchants. When China banned opium sales, the merchants used their ownership of the press to publish lies and build the case for war, this beginning the opium wars. One merchant who sold opium had the last name of Forbes. Forbes magazine today can trace its founding directly to the money the Forbes family amassed by selling addictive drugs to China.

Julian Assange will die in the US if he is extradited for telling the truth about US war crimes that the US media refuses to publish. The US military intelligence community has lines of control into every major news company, which is how the case for war is built every single time. US military intelligence also has full editorial control over any and all movies that use military equipment, locations, or uniforms. They have used that control to change entire narratives.

When international journalists expose European and American oligarchic crimes, they get murdered. Remember the Panama Papers journalist died to a car bomb.

The idea that Chinese reporting is less trustworthy than White reporting is just orientalism.

As opposed to other media, which isn't propaganda