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Tajikistan
On July 5, 2024, Khovar News Agency, Tajikistan’s official news agency, and the government-owned Narodnaya Gazeta newspaper published an op-ed by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled “Working Together for a Brighter Tomorrow of China-Tajikistan Relations” (共創中塔關係美好明天). The article outlined five points for deepening China-Tajik relations in areas from “people-to-people exchanges” to top-down governance and border security enforcement. Xi’s proposals were broadcast across Chinese government websites and circulated by official news outlets including [Xinhua](…
Tajikistan
On July 5, 2024, during President Xi Jinping’s third visit to Tajikistan since assuming office in 2012, Khovar News Agency, Tajikistan’s national news outlet, signed a memorandum of understanding with People’s Daily (人民日報), the official “mouthpiece” of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. The memorandum aims to establish a “regular cooperation mechanism” to deepen news content exchange, joint events, and talent exchange between the two outlets. The signing took place on the same day that an op-ed by President Xi …
Kazakhstan
The state-run Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), also known as the “Voice of China,” signed a memorandum of understanding during the Second China-Central Asia Summit in June 2025, a diplomatic meeting between China and five Central Asian countries. The agreement, according to a report by the national broadcaster China Central Television (中央電視台), which is owned by CMG, will facilitate technology and content exchange between China Media Group and Kazak…
Kazakhstan
On June 16, 2025, during the second China-Central Asia Summit, a diplomatic meeting between China and five Central Asian countries first held in 2023, the state-run Kazakhstan President’s TV and Radio Complex and China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) signed an agreement to jointly produce "Silk Way Star" (絲路之星), a singing competition gathering contestants from Central Asian countries and China, planned to air on the Kazakh national Silk Way TV channel and Chi…
Spain
On February 24, 2020, Yao Fei (姚飛), China’s then-charge d’affairs to Spain, was interviewed by Spanish radio broadcaster Onda Cero’s program “Más de uno” (“More Than One”) about the coronavirus pandemic. Acknowledging that the virus had caused a major public health crisis in China, Yao stated in the interview that China maintained a “policy of complete transparency” in its response to the virus in response to criticisms of the Chinese go…
Kazakhstan
On June 16, 2025, during the Second China-Central Asia Summit, a diplomatic meeting between China and leaders from five Central Asian countries, China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Khabar Agency, one of Kazakhstan’s largest state broadcasters owned wholly by the Ministry of Culture. The MoU aimed to broaden exchanges in areas such as news content and technology sharing. According to a report from the CMG-owned China Central Television (中央電視台), or CCTV, the agreement would contribute to the development of the China-Kazakhstan Permane…
Spain
Headquartered in Madrid, Onda Cero is a national radio broadcaster that first went on air November 1990, covering news, politics, culture, and more. It is owned by the publicly-traded Astresmeda, one of Spain’s largest media companies which also owns several other radio and television stations as well as a streaming platform, Astresplayer. Onda Cero had an average of 2.3 million listeners in the first half of 2026, according to a
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…
