World Journal  World Journal () is a daily Chinese language broadsheet newspaper published in North America. It is the largest Chinese language newspaper in the United States and one of the largest Chinese language newspapers outside of China, with a daily circulation of 350,000. The newspaper is headquartered in the College Point neighborhood of Queens in New York City. "World Journal" is published in major cities in the United States with large overseas Chinese populations including New York as well as Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. The publication is widely sold in many Chinatowns and major suburbs. Subscription is available in the United States and Canada. The newspaper began on February 12, 1976. Originally its headquarters were in Chinatown, Manhattan, in New York City. The headquarters relocated to nearby Whitestone, Queens, in 1980, where it has since remained. The "World Journal" has the largest circulation among a Chinese American and Chinese Canadian readership. The publication is owned by the same media conglomerate that runs the "United Daily News" in Taiwan and carries a significant Taiwanese American administrative presence. Until the mid-1990s, it was viewed as hostile to the People's Republic of China, in part because the paper referred to people from mainland China as "Communist Chinese". Furthermore, its coverage on mainland China usually comprised only one article or so each day out of dozens of pages and sections. However, the newspaper has changed substantially since it began increasing its coverage of mainland China. Following the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, such coverage increased to two pages per day. A rapid shift to neutralism toward mainland China also occurred in the early 1990s as part of an attempt to expand its readership to recently arrived Chinese immigrants to the United States, including those who left the mainland after the expansion of access to permanent resident green cards following the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989. The other reason for the rapid shift was rooted in the newspaper's sympathy to the Chinese democracy movement. The shift was further strengthened during the mid-1990s in part due to the new wave of mainland Chinese immigrants to North America and in part due to political developments in Taiwan, where multi-party elections have been allowed. Like its parent the "United Daily News", the "World Journal" is widely seen as taking an editorial line that favors the Pan-Blue coalition and the Kuomintang. It also opposes the Taiwanese independence ideology of the Pan-Green coalition. Consequently, this editorial position has made it much less hostile toward the People's Republic since the 1990s.