I know, just like https://cn.ft.com/ https://cn.ft.com/ and https://cn.nytimes.com/ https://cn.nytimes.com/ (which are more likely to be worth reading, although

I know, just like https://cn.ft.com/ https://cn.ft.com/ and https://cn.nytimes.com/ https://cn.nytimes.com/ (which are more likely to be worth reading, although not at the same level as the English originals), but the blocks can be circumvented by sufficiently motivated individuals. And I think there are more of those in China than there are sufficiently motivated individuals in the US circumventing the language barrier to read https://www.caixin.com/ https://www.caixin.com/ or any of the magazines published by http://boyamedia.com/ http://boyamedia.com/ . (Of course those aren't representative of "Chinese news" either, most of which probably consists of clickbait blogspam.)