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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…
China
The Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨贵州省委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in China's southern Guizhou Province. As with all provincial-level party committees in China, it sits above the provincial government in the political hierarchy. First established on December 3, 1949, the committee oversees all party work in Guizhou, controls key personnel appointments across government, media, and state enterprises, and implements directives from the CCP Central Committee. Guizhou Daily (贵州日報), which began publication on November 1949, serves as the committee's official media organ. …
China
The Guizhou Daily Newspaper Group (貴州日報報業集團) is the publisher of the Guizhou Daily (貴州日報), the official mouthpiece newspaper of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The daily newspaper serves to both mirror the policy priorities of the central CCP leadership in Beijing at the provincial level, and to promote the policies and priorities of top provincial leaders. The newspaper group, formed originally in November 1949, soon after the establishment of the PRC, publishes a suite of commercial publications, including Guizhou Business Daily (貴州上報) and Guizhou Metropolis Daily (貴州都市報), and like other traditional publishing groups unde…
Italy
The National Group of Press Office Journalists (Gruppo Nazionale Giornalisti Uffici Stampa), or GUS Nazionale, is the press office under the National Federation of the Italian Press, FNSI (Federazione Nazionale della Stampa Italiana), a national union of journalists in the country. The objectives of GUS Nazionale include maintaining the collaboration between members, facilitating journalistic work, and providing training. For example, a workshop on new technologies and disinformation for journalists was organized in early 2026. Despite Italy’s withdrawal from China’s signat…
Italy
On July 19, 2026, a six-member delegation from China News Service (CNS), the official newswire operated directly by the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party, visited the Italian office of Nouvelles d’Europe, a regional outlet directly under its control through proxy companies. The delegation also met with representatives from the National Group of Press Office Journalists (Gruppo Nazionale Giornalisti Uffici Stampa), a professional association of journalists working in company communications roles, and the Lazio Regional Order of Journalists (Ordi…
France, Hong Kong
On November 28, 2025, Gonggong News Agency, a privately operating news service with connections to Hong Kong and Guangdong province and apparently close affiliations with the government of Uganda, signed a cooperation agreement in Hong Kong with Radio Mandarin d'Europe (欧洲华语广播电台), a Paris-based Mandarin language broadcaster. Both media agreed to cooperate in areas such as content sharing and joint talent development. During the signing ceremony, Gong Guolin (龚国林), the executive deputy director of Gonggong News Agency, said the media's mission is to facilitate global communication. Radio Mandarin d'Europe Director Xie N…
China, Solomon Islands
On June 27, 2026, the Guizhou Daily Convergent Media Group (贵州日报当代融媒体集团有限责任公司), an entity full controlled by provincial government in Guizhou, signed a memorandum of cooperation with Tavuli News, a privately-owned news outlet in the Solomon Islands. Attending the event, Li Weihong (李卫红), the editor-in-chief of Guizhou Daily (贵州日报), the flagship newspaper of the Guizhou provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), welcomed the delegation from the Solomon Islands and expressed the hope …
Romania
On May 20, 2021, the Chinese Embassy in Romania published a four-page special edition on the efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to reduce poverty in China, in cooperation with the daily Romanian-language newspaper Curierul Național. The edition theme was based on the 2021 White Paper “China's Practices in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights" (人類減貧的中國實踐), which promoted the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on its national campaign to eradicate poverty, which was
Thailand
On August 4, 2026, the Guangxi International Communication Center (廣西國際傳播中心), a provincial-level center founded in 2024 in the capital of Nanning to oversee global propaganda and public diplomacy efforts, held a ceremony for the relaunch of its Thailand liaison office. Located in the headquarters of Thailand's MCOT Public Company Limited, the country's state-owned broadcaster, the liaison office will work together with MCOT for the production of news in Chinese and Thai, will facilitate personnel exchanges, and will develop a group of what the release called "special correspondents" — though it was not clear what this role entailed. An unnam…
Sweden
On January 15, 2026, Wan Degang (萬德剛), Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden, published a signed article in Stockholm-based online outlet NewsVoice urging greater cooperation between China and Europe as “the world is facing more pronounced instability and uncertainty.” In a clear reference to the United States, the article mentions the situation in Venezuela as well as “the uncertain future of Greenland.” The article, titled “Crossing Mountains an…
China, Hungary
From October 25 to October 31, 2024, a media delegation from Hungary visited the central Chinese region of Hubei. The visit, organized by the Chinese embassy in Hungary, brought together journalists from the online newspaper Magyar Hírlap and the English-language news portal Hungary Today, to tour the region's hotspots, from cultural exhibitions like the China Bridge Museum to industrial and tech facilities such as the Dongfeng Voyah auto plant. On October 27, the delegation met …
Portugal
On November 26, 2018, a seminar was held in Portugal’s capital of Lisbon drawing Chinese and Portuguese government officials together with media representatives from China, Portugal, and other Portuguese-speaking countries — including Brazil and Angola. The seminar, called the “Dialogue of Media Cooperation Between China and Portugal,” called for deepening cooperation and joint reporting of stories between the two countries, emphasizing the role of media in fostering stronger bilateral relations. In his speech to the event, Wang Xiaohui (王晓晖), executive deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department of the CCP, highlighted a long history of media c…
Angola
Founded after Angola gained independence in November 1975, Jornal de Angola is the country's only daily printed newspaper. State-operated through its publishing company Edições Novembro — formerly known as Empresa Gráfica de Angola — the outlet was nationalized in 1976 under Law No. 51/76. As reported by the BBC, the publication rarely publishes editorial content critical of the government. In 1992, early in his career, anti-corruption activist Rafael Marques de Morais w…
China
The Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨湖北省委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in Hubei Province. As with all provincial-level party committees in China, it sits above the provincial government in the political hierarchy. First established on May 20,1949, the committee oversees all party work in Hubei, controls key personnel appointments across government, media, and state enterprises, and implements directives from the CCP Central Committee. Hubei Daily (湖北日報), which began publication on July 1, 1949,
Hungary
The Friends of Hungary Foundation (Magyarország Barátai Alapítvány) is a Hungarian diaspora NGO established in 2011 by 13 founding members, including prominent Hungarian scientists, bankers, and cultural figures based across Europe, the US, and Singapore. Per its founding letter, the foundation exists to inform the international community about Hungary and Hungarians worldwide in a nonpartisan way while celebrating Hungarian achievements abroad. The letter states that the founders "considered it necessary to establish an organization that would value-consciously but impartially in…
