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Greece
On May 21, 2026, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, organized a joint reporting visit by more than 20 Chinese and Greek journalists to the port of Piraeus. The visit was reported by South, the external propaganda brand of Guangdong’s South International Communication Center (南方國際傳播中心), part of the provincial Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團), which sent its own repr…
Rwanda
From June 21 to 28, 2026, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, and the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Rwanda hosted an African media delegation in China. The delegation included staff of Rwanda’s Kigali Today Ltd., according to a first-person account by Antoinette Mutoni, published by Kigali Today’s English-language outlet KT Press and republished by the Belt and R…
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Poland, Romania, Slovenia
On May 29, 2026, the “Home of Journalists” program of the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, hosted a media roundtable in Dunhuang, in China’s Gansu province, for journalists, experts and scholars from China and 12 Central and Eastern European countries. Participants
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Federal News Agency, or FENA, is the news agency of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the country’s two constituent entities. It was established by a Federation government decree of October 19, 2000, which merged the BH Press and HABENA agencies, and it began operating in October 2001. According to State Media Monitor, which classifies FENA as state-controlled, the Federation government appoints its management board, must consent to the appointment of its director, and provides most of its funding. The monitor found no statutory guarantee of editorial independence. Bosnian media have reported that FENA’s current …
United States
PHG Media Invest LLC is a company registered in the US state of Wyoming that the website of the Romanian news channel Realitatea Plus lists as its owner. Its registered office is a Sheridan, Wyoming, address shared by large numbers of companies that use it for registration purposes. Wyoming is a popular jurisdiction for such filings because it requires little public disclosure of ownership. The LLC takes the name of PHG Media Invest SRL, the Romanian company that holds the Realitatea Plus broadcast license. According to the channel’s lawyer, the US company took over the Romanian license holder and has the…
Rwanda
The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Rwanda (中華人民共和國駐盧旺達共和國大使館) is China’s diplomatic mission in Kigali. China and Rwanda established diplomatic relations in 1971. The embassy works with Rwanda’s government to implement outcomes of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and to expand people-to-people exchanges, according to a 2025 statement by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In June 2026, the embassy co-hosted a China tour for Rwandan and other African journalists with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會). A participating journalist from Kigali Today Ltd.
Romania
Realitatea Plus is a Romanian all-news television channel. Launched in 2015, it took over the programming of Realitatea TV, Romania’s first news channel, after Realitatea TV lost its license in 2019. The channel is controlled by the family of Maricel Păcuraru, a businessman described as controversial
Rwanda
KT Press is the English-language news outlet of Rwanda’s Kigali Today Ltd. It was founded in March 2014 and describes its mission as serving as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make Rwanda “truly one nation.” It belongs to the Kigali Today Ltd. group alongside KT Radio and the Kinyarwanda-language news site kigalitoday.com, and it maintains accounts on Facebook and X. Its coverage has at times defended the Rwandan government against critics. In 2018, for example, it promoted a radio program by its sister station exploring the
Romania
PHG Media Invest SRL is the Bucharest-based company that holds the broadcast license of the Romanian news channel Realitatea Plus. It was incorporated on March 23, 2020, with its registered activity listed as market research and public opinion polling. Its sole shareholder has been Daniela Madi Păcuraru, wife of businessman Maricel Păcuraru, according to Forbes Romania. The magazine reported modest 2024 turnover for the company itself, while its wholly owned media agency, DBV Media House, reported turnover of 16.6 million eur…
Rwanda
Founded in September 2011, Kigali Today Ltd. is a private Rwandan media company. It runs the news site Kigali Today, published in Kinyarwanda, Rwanda’s national language, as well as the English-language outlet KT Press, a YouTube channel and KT Radio 96.7 FM. KT Radio began as an online station and now covers most of Rwanda’s territory. That makes it one of only three stations with near-national reach, alongside the state broadcaster and the Catholic-funded Radio Maria, according to the company. In 2026, a Kigali Today journalist joined a China tour hosted by the Al…
Bulgaria
24 Hours (24 часа, 24 Chasa) is a Bulgarian national daily newspaper based in Sofia, founded in 1991 as part of the 168 Chasa press group. Eurotopics describes it as a pioneer of Bulgaria’s free press after the fall of communism, and as one of the first independent outlets to reach mass circulation. It notes that the paper has also been frequently accused of using its influence for political purposes. 24 Hours belonged to Germany’s WAZ media group until 2010. Its new owners then
Slovenia
Primorske novice is a regional daily newspaper based in Koper, Slovenia, covering the country’s coastal Primorska region. It was formed through the merger of two regional papers. It publishes separate editions for the coastal Koper area and the northern Nova Gorica area, with editorial offices in both cities. Eurotopics notes that the paper describes itself as independent. The shipping company Splošna Plovba later
China
The Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台), or BRJN, is an international platform that the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, founded in Beijing in 2019. The ACJA launched it at the Belt and Road Journalists Forum together with journalist organizations from countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. According to a 2026 description published by the propaganda office of the CCP’s …
Belarus, Brazil, China
On July 19, 2025, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, convened the 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Ganzhou, in China’s Jiangxi province. The ACJA co-hosted the forum with the propaganda office of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee. The Jiangxi Journalists Association (江西省新聞工作者協會), Jiangxi Daily (江西日報) and the Ganzhou Municipal People’s Government (贛州市人民政府)
Kazakhstan
On September 23, 2026, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, and the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan co-organized the 2026 China-Kazakhstan Media Roundtable in Almaty. The event brought together Chinese and Kazakh journalists, scholars and business representatives to exchange experiences on issues including the role of AI in journalism. In his opening speech, ACJA Secretariat member Yin Lujun (殷陸君) said media collaboration strengthens t…
Brazil
On November 8, 2024, the Brazilian Press Association (巴西新聞協會), or ABI, signed a strategic cooperation agreement in São Paulo with Chongqing’s Western International Communication Center (西部國際傳播中心), or WICC, to set up a Bridging News Brazil Liaison Office. The agreement was reported by Forum Macao (中國—葡語國家經貿合作論壇), a Macau-based platform backed by the Chinese government, citing the ABI. Bridging News is one of the WICC’s international platforms. The WICC is run by …
Cabo Verde, Chile, China, Mongolia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Zambia
On October 17, 2026, the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, convened the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing. The ACJA co-hosted the forum with the propaganda office of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Nanjing Municipal People’s Government. About 100 heads of journalist organizations and media representatives from more than 50 countries and regions attended. The event was held …
France
On July 20, 2026, a Chinese journalists’ delegation headed by Zhang Chunjiao (張春校), vice chair of the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, visited the Paris-area offices of Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報), according to the newspaper’s own report. Nouvelles d’Europe is a French-based Chinese-language newspaper with ties to the state-run China News Service and the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Zhong Cheng (鍾誠), president o…
Brazil
On June 16, 2025, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), founded in 1908 and one of Brazil’s oldest press organizations, signed a memorandum of understanding in Rio de Janeiro with the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, according to the ABI. Wu Xu (吳旭), a member of the ACJA Secretariat, signed for the Chinese side. The memorandum formalized a relationship that began in 2023. In August 2024, the ABI was admitted to the …
China
Shandong Radio and Television (山東廣播電視台) was formed in 2010 through the merger of three radio and television stations. According to its introduction, its official website, iqilu.com (齊魯網), is the designated platform for publishing Shandong provincial government news releases. Its 2025 annual report highlighted its external propaganda work, such as producing the five-episode documentary Master Yijing (義淨大師), intended to promote China-Malaysia exchange. The broadcaster also operates the Shandong…
