Abstract: The article is devoted to identifying common patterns of rhizomatic news headlines in Russian and Chinese leading online media. The subject of the study is the rhizomatic nature of digital media news headlines, which is manifested in the complex interrelationships of texts in cyberspace. The material is the headlines of international news from leading Russian and Chinese digital media for 2024. The scientific novelty is determined by the fact that for the first time an attempt has been made to conduct a comparative study on the main manifestations of the rhizomatic nature of news headlines in Russian and Chinese leading digital media. Being an announcement and hyperlink of an Online media news article, complex digital headline texts receive typical rhizomatic characteristics such as: interconnectedness, heterogeneity, multiplicity, nonlinearity, openness, dynamism, the status of which is not clearly defined. Their analysis determines the relevance of the study.  The research methods combine the classification of linguistic units, linguistic description, functional and semantic analysis, and comparison to identify common rhizomatic properties of news headlines from leading Russian and Chinese online media. The results of the study show that rhizomaticity is characteristic of the international news headlines of Russian and Chinese leading digital media. An analysis of the complex of news headlines in Russian and Chinese digital media based on 6 main characteristics of the rhizome showed that rhizomatic relationships are found in news headline texts, which exhibit the following properties: citation, hypertextuality, intertextuality, precedent, heterogeneity, multidimensionality, multiplicity, discreteness, fragmentation, out-of-structure, nonlinearity, deterritorialization, reterritorialization, decentralization openness and dynamism. The obtained research results can be the basis for further research in this field, and used in the practice of teaching university courses in relevant disciplines. The conclusion of the study is that rhizomaticity is the main attribute of the texts of news headlines in Russian and Chinese leading digital media.