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On September 20, 2025, Cui Aimin (崔愛民), China’s ambassador to Sweden, published a signed article in the Swedish online media outlet NewsVoice to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, as well as the 80th anniversary of China's supposed role — a more recently developed and misleading narrative — in co-founding the United Nations alongside the rest of the world. Called "Improving Global Governance, Building a Better Future Together," the article entirely disregards the historical fact that the People's Republic of China had not yet been established at the time. In fact, it was the Republi…
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On September 20, 2022, the Chinese Embassy in Sweden published the full text of an interview between Chinese Ambassador to Sweden Cui Aimin (崔愛民) and FokusKina, a Swedish association and magazine with strong China links that is focused on Chinese history, culture, and society. Topics included Cui's diplomatic career, Sino-Swedish cultural exchange, COVID-19, and bilateral trade. The interview featured standard CCP discourse, including calls for "mutual respect and win-win cooperation" (相互尊重互利共贏). On Taiwan, Cui claimed that the country had "since ancient times" (自古以來) been part of China, that "one China…
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On December 8, 2022, the Swedish newspaper Proletären published an exclusive interview with Cui Aimin (崔愛民), China’s ambassador to Sweden. The questions posed by Proletären included many that effectively served as invitations to share PRC state talking points, such as the concept of "Chinese-style modernization," China's efforts in "poverty alleviation," China's position on the Taiwan issue, the United …
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On August 22, 2025, Cui Aimin (崔愛民), China’s ambassador to Sweden, published a signed article promoting China's governance of Tibet in the Swedish media outlet Nya Dagbladet. The article, called "The Plateau Takes on a New Look, the Snow-Covered Land Tells Its Story — A Colorful Picture of Tibet's Economic and Social Development,” marked the 60th anniversary of China’s invasion of Tibet, which the CCP regards merely as the its incorporation as an autonomous region. Cui’s article argued that the region is currently developing well under Xi Jinping's leadership, and also claimed that the wealth and education levels of Tibet's population have seen significant improvements, framing t…
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On April 25, 2022, Chinese Ambassador to Sweden Cui Aimin (崔愛民) met with Peter Wolodarski, Editor-in-Chief of Sweden's daily Dagens Nyheter, according to the Chinese Embassy. Cui had arrived in Sweden in December 2021, succeeding Gui Congyou (桂從友), whose tenure was marked by repeated threats to Swedish journalists and calls from multiple parties for his expulsion. Cui offered to help Swedish media report on China in an "objective, impartial, and …
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On February 13, 2026, Wan Degang (萬德剛), the acting head of the Chinese mission in Sweden in the absence of a formal ambassador, published a signed article in the Swedish outlet Nya Dagbladet arguing that China's economic rise benefits the global economy while criticizing US tariff policies for disrupting world trade. The article, titled "China's Prosperous Development Injects Powerful Momentum into Global Economic Growth," said that China's GDP growth would reach 5 percent and that its contribution to the global economy would reach 30 percent. The article also referenced the December 18, 2025,
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On October 8, 2023, Cui Aimin (崔愛民), Chinese ambassador to Sweden, published a signed article in the Swedish magazine FokusKina, titled "Witnessing Half a Century of Mutually Beneficial China-Sweden Economic and Trade Cooperation" (見證半個世紀中瑞經貿互利友好合作). The article centered on the story of Italy-born, Sweden-based businessman Peppino Cocozza and his decades of participation in the Canton Fair (廣交會) as a framing device for China's economic transformation. Cui highlighted bilateral trade figures, stating that in 2022 China-Sweden goods trade
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On May 7, 2025, Cui Aimin (崔愛民), China's ambassador to Sweden, gave an interview with Stockholm-based online outlet NewsVoice, which published the transcript on June 2. Marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties, Cui promoted a broad vision of China-Sweden cooperation spanning trade, green technology, and people-to-people exchanges, portraying China as a stable and forward-looking partner. He criticized US tariff policies, calling both China and the EU "victi…
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Bonnier Group is a privately held Swedish media conglomerate, wholly owned by the Bonnier family, whose origins trace back to 1804, when Gerhard Bonnier opened a bookstore in Copenhagen. The group operates across 12 countries with interests spanning newspapers, book publishing, magazines, film, digital media, and real estate. Its major subsidiaries include Bonnier News — the Nordic region's largest news media company, publishing titles such as Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, and Dagens industri
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Proletären is a Swedish weekly newspaper founded in 1970 as the official organ of the Kommunistiska partiet (Communist Party of Sweden), then known as KFML(r). Proletären publishes a weekly 20–28-page magazine in print and digital formats, covering domestic and international news, in-depth analysis, culture, sport, and reports (often from demonstrations and political events). On its about page, Proletären acknowledges it is "not objective or neutral" (inte objektiva eller neutrala) and takes a clear editorial position "for welfare, peace, and socialism, against right-wing politics and imperialism" (för välfärd,…
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Bonnier News, established in 2016, is a major Swedish news media company and a subsidiary of the Bonnier Group, a conglomerate spanning media, real estate and investment services that has been wholly owned by the Bonnier family since its founding in 1804 in Copenhagen. Headquartered in Stockholm, the company publishes flagship Swedish dailies Dagens Nyheter, Expressen, and Dagens industri, alongside over 200 other brands spanning local newspapers, mag…
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Dagens Nyheter is a Swedish daily morning newspaper founded on December 23, 1864 by publisher and journalist Rudolf Wall in Stockholm. It was Sweden's first modern morning newspaper, and Wall served as editor-in-chief until 1889. Since 1909, Dagens Nyheter has been owned by the Bonnier Group, a Swedish media conglomerate controlled by the Bonnier family and operating across 12 countries. The paper covers national and international affairs, foreign news, domestic political coverage, and art…
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Nya Dagbladet is a Swedish online daily newspaper founded in 2012. The outlet adheres to nationalist, science-skeptic, and non-partisan positions. It describes itself as humanist and ethnopluralist, and holds an anti-globalization stance. EXPO, a Swedish NGO that monitors right-wing organizations, considers Nya Dagbladet a right-wing extremist website that feeds conspiracy theories. The paper's founder, editor-in-chief, and publisher is
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The Communist Party of Sweden (Kommunistiska Partiet) is a far-left Marxist-Leninist political party founded in 1970. It emerged from a series of splits within the Swedish communist movement during the late 1960s, when pro-Beijing factions broke away from the mainstream Left Party over ideological disagreements. Headquartered in Gothenburg, the party was officially registered in 1977 and adopted its current name at its 14th Party Congress in January 2005. As of March 2026, it held no seats in the Swe…
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FokusKina is a Swedish association that publishes a quarterly journal of the same name — formerly called Kinarapport — covering Chinese history, culture, politics, economics, and society, and describes itself as "the only journal in Sweden focused entirely on China." In addition to the journal, the association organizes lectures, cultural events, and member trips to China.
