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On August 7, 2014, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency and the Observatorio de la Política China signed a cooperation agreement in Madrid, allowing both entities to exchange information and analysis and organize joint seminars. The ceremony was presided over by Zhu Bangzao (朱邦造), China's ambassador to Spain. According to the Observatory, the agreement also supports the circulation of its publications on Chinese politics, including Jiexi Zhongguo (解析中國), a journal of analysis on China, the Taiwan Week…
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The Observatorio de la Política China (OPCh) is a research group founded in 2004 by Galician sinologist Xulio Ríos under the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (IGADI), a Spain-based think tank, and with backing from Casa Asia, a public diplomacy consortium backed by the Spanish government that produces analysis on the Asia-Pacific region. The OPCh says its focus is on Chinese legal reform, human rights, cross-Strait unification, a…
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El Semanal de La Mancha is a weekly Spanish-language newspaper based in Castilla-La Mancha, a comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of central Spain comprising the provinces of Toledo, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Albacete. It was founded in 2009 by a group of local journalists and media professionals as a self-employment cooperative, following the closure of the regional weekly Canfali, which its founders said left a significant information an…
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El País is a Spanish-language daily newspaper founded on May 4, 1976, during the country's transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco Franco, whose authoritarian regime had controlled Spain's press for nearly four decades. Based in Madrid and owned by the Prisa media conglomerate, it was the first major Spanish newspaper to operate independently of Franco’…
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Mundo Global is a Spanish-language digital publication under the Spanish group Cátedra China, a nonprofit organization founded in November 2012 in Madrid by Marcelo Muñoz, a veteran Spanish businessman in China. The publication describes itself as a platform for research, opinion pieces, interviews, and analysis on China and its relationship with the world, with particular emphasis on the bilateral link between Spain and China. Its content is primarily written by Cáted…
Spain
Prisa Group (Promotora de Informaciones, S.A.) is a Spanish media conglomerate founded in 1972. The group was initially established to support the launch of the newspaper El País. The group's major brands include El País, the radio network Cadena SER, the music brand Los 40, the sports daily AS, and the educational publisher Santilla…
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The China International Development Cooperation Agency, or CIDCA (國家國際發展合作署), is a deputy ministerial-level agency directly under China's State Council, formally established on April 18, 2018. The agency was created by merging foreign aid responsibilities previously handled by the Ministry of Commerce with input from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the stated aim of strengthening strategic coordination of aid. CIDCA drafts aid strategy, sets budgets, approves projects, negotiate…
Spain
Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (Corporacion de Radio y Television Espanola or RTVE) is Spain's state-owned public broadcasting corporation, established in 1973 through a merger of Radio Nacional de España (RNE) and Televisión Española (TVE), with its current structure established in 2007. RTVE operates five domestic television channels — including the generalist La 1 and La 2, news channel 24 Horas, children's channel Clan, and sports channel Teledeporte — alongside
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El Triangle is a Catalan-language weekly newspaper based in Barcelona, founded in January 1990. It describes itself as prioritizing "investigative journalism and analysis." The weekly newspaper has both a print edition and a bilingual (Catalan and Spanish) website, with an active presence on social media platforms including X and Facebook. The publication displays the lo…
Spain
El Periódico de España is a daily publication launched on October 12, 2021. It covers politics, economics, international affairs, sports, and entertainment, and was conceived as an alternative to Madrid-centric national dailies, with the willingness to offer a more regionally diverse point of view. The publication features regional editions with local news from across Spain. Initially published…
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The Chinese Consulate General in Barcelona (中华人民共和国驻巴塞罗那总领事馆) is China's only consulate in Spain, opened in Barcelona's centrally located Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. Its consular district covers the four provinces of the Catalonia autonomous community: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Operating under the supervision of the Chinese Embassy in Madrid, the consulate provides visa and passport services, consular protection for Chinese nationals, and promotes economic, cultural, and educational ties between China and Catalonia. The Consulate has been actively engaged in outreach activities across Catalonia, including
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On February 26, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Spain Yao Jing (姚敬) published an article in the digital newspaper El Periódico de España titled "There Is No Room for Ambiguity in UN General Assembly Resolution 2758." In the article, he argued that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 — which transferred China's seat in the United Nations from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People's Republic of China in October 1971 — settled Taiwan's status as part of China. Not surprisingly, Yao’s argument perfectly mirrored the Chinese Communist Party's
China, Spain
In August 2025, 26 Spanish journalists and analysts traveled to Beijing for a ten-day training course on China, organized by the China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), a state media organization established in 1949 and directly under the CCP's Central Propaganda Department. The course was co-sponsored by the China International Development Cooperation Agency (國家國際發展合作署), Beijing's foreign aid body under the State Council,
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On May 12, 2016, He Ping (何平), then editor-in-chief of China's state-run Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), met with José Antonio Vera, then president of Spain's Agencia EFE (埃菲通訊社), in Madrid. He Ping called for deeper cooperation and said Xinhua should serve as a "bridge" between the two countries' populations — language characteristic of the CCP's framing of state media as instruments of public diplomacy rather tha…
Spain
On May 13, 2025, El Triangle, a Catalan magazine, published an op-ed by Meng Yuhong (孟宇宏), China's consul general in Barcelona, titled “The one-China principle cannot be questioned, and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 cannot be challenged.” In the article, the consul wrote that the”One China Principle” (Beijing's position that Taiwan is part…
China, Spain
On January 30, 2009, Spain's public broadcaster, Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE) and China Central Television (CCTV) signed a cooperation agreement during former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's (溫家寶) official visit to Spain. Signed by then RTVE
China, Spain
On September 5, 2024, Fu Hua (傅華), the president of China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, met with Miguel Ángel Oliver, president of Spain's state-owned agency Agencia EFE, in Beijing. As the two counterparts met, Fu stressed that the agencies have cooperated since the 1970s, though the earliest documented contact appears to date back to 2015. Fu expressed interest in expanded exchanges in news content, personnel, and new media. Oliver,
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The 25th Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作組織), convening in Tianjin on August 31–September 1, 2025, adopted the Tianjin Declaration (天津宣言) alongside a dedicated "Statement on Further Deepening International Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence" (上海合作組織成員國元首理事會關於進一步深化人工智能國際合作的聲明) — one of five thematic statements issued at the summit. Attended by more than 20 heads of state including Chines…
China, Hungary
On February 26, 2025, Duna Médiaszolgáltató (DMSZ) and Hunan Satellite Television (湖南衛視) signed a memorandum of cooperation in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, covering a range of media co-productions and exchanges. According to a Hunan Broadcasting press release, the memorandum was signed by a DMSZ executive and Song Dian (宋點), director of Hunan Satellite Television, in the presence of the Hungarian Consul General in Chongqing and Hunan Broadcasting chairman Gong Zhengwen (龔政文). The agreement covers co-production of China-related documentaries and food programs, cultural exchanges, and talent training. The deal builds on a July 2023 cooperat…
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On December 4, 2024, the Keizai Koho Center (經濟廣報中心), the international communications arm of Keidanren (經團連), Japan's most influential business lobby, hosted its annual reception for Chinese media correspondents and Japanese corporate representatives in Tokyo. Held yearly since 2005, the event was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in 2022. According to KKC, over 70 attendees participated, including 45 journalists from 24 Chinese media outlets such as China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), and People's Daily (人民日報). KKC Senior Managing Director Ryo Watanabe
