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Ghana
The New Times Corporation is one of Ghana’s two state-owned newspaper publishers. It publishes the daily Ghanaian Times and the weekly The Spectator. It began as the Guinea Press, established by President Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. After Nkrumah’s overthrow in a 1966 military coup, the press was taken over as state property by decree in 1968, and in 1971 it was reconstituted under its current name. The corporation is wholly state-owned and overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, but it funds itself mainly through advert…
Egypt
The Middle East News Agency (中東通訊社), or MENA, is Egypt’s official news agency. It was established on December 15, 1955 as a joint-stock company owned by Egyptian press establishments. It was nationalized in 1960 and placed under the Ministry of Information. The agency has ties to Chinese state media going back decades. MENA’s chairman has said the agency signed its first news exchange agreement with Xinhua in 1958, and that the agreement remains in effect. He has also praise…
Thailand
The Confederation of ASEAN Journalists was founded in Jakarta on March 11, 1975 by delegates of the national journalist organizations of ASEAN member states. Journalist bodies from Myanmar and Cambodia later joined. Its presidency rotates among member organizations. Indonesia took the post for 2022–2024 at a general assembly in Bali in October 2022, with PWI chairman Atal S. Depari as president. Speaking in that capacity at the 2023 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Beijing, Depari
Solomon Islands
The Media Association of Solomon Islands (所羅門媒體協會), or MASI, is the country’s national association of journalists. In May 2022, MASI called on members to boycott the only press event of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s (王毅) visit to Honiara, protesting restrictions that limited attendance to a few selected local outlets and Chinese media and allowed only two questions. Officials cited COVID-19 concerns, but MASI president Georgina Kekea called that an excuse and framed…
United States
The North America Regional Bureau (新華社北美總分社) of Xinhua News Agency, China’s state news agency and an institution directly under the State Council, was formally established in New York in October 2008. According to Xinhua, the bureau oversees nine bureaus in the United States and Canada, including those in Washington, at the United Nations, and in Ottawa and Toronto. In May 2011, the bureau moved into
Switzerland
The Geneva Press Club, formally the Club suisse de la presse, is a Swiss association founded on October 22, 1997, with backing from the Swiss Confederation. Its mission is to host visiting journalists and foster exchanges between Swiss and international figures in politics, economics, culture and science. Its founding members included Swiss broadcaster RTSR, La Tribune de Genève and other media groups, alongside private institutions. The club organizes press conferences and debates for the international organizations based in Geneva, and
Spain
The Ayuntamiento de Gálvez (加爾維斯市政府) is the municipal government of Gálvez, a town in Spain’s Toledo province in the Castile-La Mancha region. As of October 2026, the council was led by Manuel Guillermo Fernández Lázaro-Carrasco of the conservative People’s Party (人民黨). He won reelection in May 2023 after 28 years as mayor. On October 6, 2026, Fernández
Ghana
The Ghanaian Times (加納時報) is an English-language daily newspaper published in Accra by the New Times Corporation, a wholly state-owned enterprise overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, which replaced the State Enterprises Commission in 2019. The publisher began as the Guinea Press, established by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. In February 1966, army and police officers overthrew Nkrumah in a milita…
Mauritius
The Media Trust is a Mauritian statutory body established under the Media Trust Act in 1994. It was set up to strengthen the professional capacity of local journalists through training. Its chairperson as of August 2024, Ashok Taluck Beeharry, told the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing that he admired Chinese media’s commitment to public service. The Trust’s ties to Beijing predate that forum. According to
China
Beijing Review (北京週報) is an English-language weekly news magazine launched in Beijing in March 1958 as Peking Review. It is published by the China International Communication Group (中國外文出版發行事業局), or CICG, which official sources describe as an “international communication institution” responsible for the “external promotion tasks of the Party and state” (承擔黨和國家對外宣介任務). CICG is an institution directly under the CCP Central Committee. Under a 2021 restructuring of…
China
The Cangzhou International Communication Center (滄州市國際傳播中心) is a municipal external propaganda platform in Cangzhou, a port city in Hebei province. It was launched on August 24, 2022, at a ceremony in Beijing, under a cooperation agreement with Xinhuanet (新華網), the online platform of Xinhua News Agency. The center is one of the many local international communication centers that Beijing h…
China
The Jinan International Communication Center (濟南國際傳播中心) is a municipal external propaganda platform launched on May 24, 2022, under the guidance of the propaganda office of the Jinan CCP Committee. Official media billed it as the first international communication center in Shandong province. The center lists its functions as content production, platform operation and monitoring of “international public opinion” (國際輿情), among others. It says it works with central state media and overseas platforms to “borrow a boat to go out to sea” (借船出海), a CCP strategy of placing state messaging throu…
Germany
Guang Hua Media (Germany) GmbH (光華傳媒德國有限公司) is the Frankfurt-based company that runs the German operations of Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報), the Paris-based paper. The paper is owned by a company controlled by the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Guang Hua was entered in the commercial register on June 28, 2013, with 25,000 euros in share capital. Its stated business includes publishing and trade in goods, “in particular art objects.” Its first listed managing director was Zhang Xiaobei (張曉貝), who was then publisher of Nouvelles d’Europ…
China
The Cangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨滄州市委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in Cangzhou, a prefecture-level port city in Hebei province. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it sits above the city government in the political hierarchy, and the committee’s Party Secretary outranks the mayor. The committee reports to the Hebei Provincial Committee of the CCP. It oversees all party work in Cangzhou, controls key personnel appointments across government, media and state enterprises, and is responsible for implementing directives from higher party authorities. Its propaganda office (中共滄州市委宣傳部)
Spain
The Spanish Section of the Association of European Journalists, known in Spanish as the Asociación de Periodistas Europeos, or APE, belongs to an organization founded in Brussels in 1963 to bring together journalists committed to European integration on democratic foundations. The Spanish section was constituted in 1981 and declared an association of public utility in 1985. Based in Madrid, it organizes seminars, luncheon colloquia with senior officials and journalism awards. According to its website, its corporate sponsors include BBVA, Telefónica, Indra and NATO. Diego Carcedo, a former direc…
Belgium
The Europe Regional Bureau (新華社歐洲總分社) of Xinhua News Agency, China’s state news agency and an institution directly under the State Council, was established in Brussels on May 6, 2004. Then-Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶) and then-European Commission President Romano Prodi unveiled its plaque. According to a 2012 College of Europe report, …
Spain
On October 6, 2026, the China International Communications Group (中國外文局), or CICG, and the Chinese Embassy in Spain held a readers’ event in Madrid for the Spanish edition of the fifth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China (習近平談治國理政), a collection of Xi’s speeches distributed abroad in dozens of languages as external propaganda. Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing (姚敬) said “Chinese modernization” (中國式現代化), a
Argentina, China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Russia
On September 28, 2019, 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, launched the Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台) at the 2019 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Beijing. According to China Daily, the ACJA initiated the network jointly with journalist groups in Belt and Road Initiative countries, with the stated purpose of promoting a “Silk Road spirit…
Nigeria
In May 2024, a delegation from 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 Abuja head office of Leadership Group Limited, publisher of the Nigerian daily Leadership. The delegation was led by ACJA Executive Secretary Wu Xu (吳旭) and accompanied by Christopher Isiguzo, president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, which had signed a memorandum with the ACJA earlier that day. According to the pa…
Nigeria
In May 2024, 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, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nigeria Union of Journalists at the union’s national secretariat in Abuja. NUJ President Christopher Isiguzo said the agreement, which he described as signed “on behalf of every journalist in Nigeria,” would bring exchange visits and training programs. He said Nigerian journalists would attend a forum in Chin…
