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Belarus, India, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Uzbekistan
China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), the state broadcaster operating under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department, launched a multilingual version of its television program "Ping 'Yu' Jin Ren: Classical Sayings Favored by Xi Jinping" (平'語'近人──習近平喜歡的典故) at a ceremony in Bishkek on August 30, 2026. The launch coincided with Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Kyrgyzstan ahead of the Bishkek summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the regional economic and security group…
Russia
The "Mir" Interstate Television and Radio Company (Мир), or МТРК, is a state-owned broadcasting consortium founded on October 9, 1992, when the heads of state of ten former Soviet republics signed an agreement in Bishkek establishing it as a joint media project of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an intergovernmental organization comprising states in the Eurasian region. The founding "shareholders" of "Mir," which was organized as a closed joint-stock company, were Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The company …
Uzbekistan
The National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston Milliy teleradiokompaniyasi), known by the acronym MTRK, is Uzbekistan's state broadcaster, headquartered in Tashkent. Its current organizational structure dates to a presidential decree issued November 8, 2005, and a subsequent Cabinet of Ministers resolution the following month, both published on Uzbekistan's official legal-documents portal, directing a restructuring of MTRK's staffing and production operations to modernize its broadcasting output. …
Pakistan
Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) is Pakistan's state television broadcaster, headquartered in Islamabad and operated under the country's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The broadcaster traces its founding to a pilot television station established in Lahore, which began black-and-white transmission on November 26, 1964, according to the Ministry's own account. Television centers followed in Karachi and Islamabad in 1967, and in Peshawar and Quetta in 1974, later expanding to Multan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The broadcaster describes its mandate as providing public-…
Uzbekistan
The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Vazirlar Mahkamasi) is the central executive body of the Uzbek government, established under Chapter 20 of Uzbekistan's constitution, adopted December 8, 1992. Its composition and powers are set out in a national law on the Cabinet of Ministers, first adopted May 6, 1993 and most recently revised in a version dated October 25, 2024, published on Uzbekistan's official legal-documents portal. Per the current law, the Cabinet consists of the prime minister, deputy prime ministers, and government ministers, and answers to Uzbeki…
Belarus, Russia
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising states of the former Soviet Union, formed after the collapse of the union in December 1991. Its origins trace to the Belovezha Accords, signed by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus on December 8, 1991, and it formally came into being on December 21, 1991, when the founding agreement was expanded to include the Central Asian republics, the Transcaucasian republics, and Moldova, per Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Baltic states declined to join. Minsk serves as …
France
On November 8, 2021, Mandarin TV (歐視TV+), a French-Chinese bilingual TV channel, held a launch ceremony in Paris with the Chinese embassy to celebrate its license from the French national broadcasting regulator, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), to extend its broadcasts across Europe under the brand “Europe TV.” The outlet reported that it would use satellite transponder capacity leased from the European satellite operator Eutelsat. Addressing the ceremony by video, China's ambassador to France, Lu Shaye (盧沙野), described Mandarin TV as the first Chinese broadcaster in France to hold a CSA license. The license and the n…
China, Finland
On January 27, 2026, during a visit of Finland's prime mInister visit to China, the tourism-promotion platform Visit Finland, an office under the country’s government agency for trade and investment promotion, signed a cooperation agreement for content production, project planning, and event organization with the state-run media conglomerate China Media Group. The agreement sought to promote what Chinese state media refer to as "people-to-people exchange"…
Romania
On September 28, 2020, three days before China’s official National Day marking the foundation of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, Nine O’Clock, a Romanian English-language daily newspaper, co-published a special edition on the holiday with the state-run Xinhua News Agency and the Chinese Embassy in Romania. The 12-page special issue recapped the history of China-Romania relations, and featured an article on bilateral cooperation written by Jiang Yu (姜瑜), then Chinese ambassador to Romania. The article, titled “Face up the Difficulties and Make New Advances in a Changing World”, praised China for the medical assistance it ha…
Finland
Business Finland is a non-profit company fully owned by the Finnish government, established in January 2018. It acts as Finland's official agency for supporting businesses, attracting foreign investment, promoting tourism, and bringing skilled workers to Finland. It provides funding, advice, and networking opportunities to Finnish companies and research organizations looking to grow internationally. Business Finland is under the oversight of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.…
Romania
Founded in 1991 following the 1989 anti-communist revolution that overthrew the dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, Nine O’Clock is an English-language daily newspaper in Romania. The newspaper covers politics, economics, culture, and society. In recent years, the Chinese Embassy in Romania has published articles through the outlet on several occasions. In September 2025, for example, the paper ran an article by Chinese Ambassador Chen Feng (陈峰) describing “defense of the One-China principle” — the PRC’s assertion of territorial soverei…
Finland
The Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is a Finnish government ministry established on January 1, 2008, as part of the Government Program — or negotiated policy platform — of the second government (2007-2010) of Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, a former journalist and leader of Finland's centrist Center Party. The ministry covers entrepreneurship, innovation, labor markets, and reg…
France
Mandarin TV is a 24-hour Chinese-French television station providing programs across Europe. Founded by the Paris-based C-Media (歐洲中誼文化傳媒公司), which openly describes itself on the banner of its website as an entity "authorized by the State Council Information Office” — referring to the Chinese government office responsible for “external propaganda” and identical to the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — the broadcaster reportedly became the first Chinese-language television station to obtain a license from France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), the country's former media regulator, since succeeded by Arcom. The channel launched in 2015 as "Fren…
Finland
Visit Finland is Finland's official national tourism promotion organization, wholly owned by Business Finland, the country's official government body for trade and investment promotion, and operating under the mandate of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. It is responsible for promoting Finland internationally as a travel destination and supporting domestic travel industry companies in developing and marketing services for global audiences. It also runs the
Italy
The Lazio Regional Order of Journalists (Ordine dei Giornalisti del Lazio) was one of the councils founded in 1963 under Italy’s National Council of the Order of Journalists (Ordine dei Giornalisti Consiglio Nazionale), the country’s national governing body for journalist licensing responsible also for the mandatory training of journalists, freelancers, and other media workers. More than 18,000 media workers completed training in 2025, according to the latest annual meeting of the national group. In the meeting, it also looked at an overview of disciplinary incidents in the workplace in the region. …
Solomon Islands
Based in the capital city of Honiara, Tavuli News is a privately-owned news media outlet established in 2022 that describes itself as an "independent media service provider." It publishes and broadcasts news content across multiple platforms, and claims partnerships with a number of broadcasters in the region, including the local TTV and New Zealand's Pasifika TV. The outlet says its vision is to "raise the standard of journalism in the Solomon Islands during this digital era by facilitating the spread of accurate and relevant information for all co…
France
Radio Mandarin d'Europe ( (欧洲华语广播电台) is a Paris-based bilingual broadcaster that provides full-day programs on topics such as news updates, tourism, and culture, with 12 hours in French and another 12 in Chinese. The establishment of the station was approved in 2013 by the Superior Audiovisual Council (Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel), the French authority responsible for regulating radio and television broadcasting. The broadcaster sometimes refers to itself as the “European Chinese Broadcast News Agency” (欧洲华语广播通讯社). According to the outlet’…
Italy
Based in Rome, the National Council of the Order of Journalists (Ordine dei Giornalisti Consiglio Nazionale) is Italy’s national governing body for journalist licensing responsible also for the mandatory training of journalists, freelancers, and other media workers. The order was founded after the announcement of Law No. 69 (Legge n. 69/1963), or the “1963 Law on the Organization of the Journalistic Profession,” which provided for the regulation of journalistic work and the function of the national council. According to the law, the national council is responsible for maintaining the “Albo dei Giornalisti,” a register of lice…
China
The Guizhou Daily Convergent Media Group (貴州日報當代融媒體集團有限責任公司) is an entity full controlled by provincial government in Guizhou, and fully held, according to registration records, by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the People's Government of Guizhou Province (貴州省人民政府國有資產監督管理委員會), the body that administers state-owned enterprises. The group was created in 2019 through the merger of two state-run media groups in the province, the Guizhou Daily Press Group (貴州日報報業集團), which publishes the province's CCP flagship paper, Guizhou Daily, and Contemporary Guizhou…
Romania
The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Romania is China's chief diplomatic mission to Romania, located in Bucharest. The office opened in 1949, after the two countries officially established diplomatic relations. The embassy handles visas and casual services, trade promotion, government outreach, and public diplomacy. In June 2026, the embassy accused right-wing Liberal Party (PNL) deputy Alexandru Muraru of interference in China's internal affairs after he came back from a visit to Taiwan and in an a…
