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, and foreign policy. It publishes a quarterly journal, Jiexi Zhongguo (解析中國), or “Analyzing China,” annual reports on both China and Taiwan, and a weekly Taiwan briefing called Taiwan Hebdo.  Notably, the OPCh’s parent institution, IGADI, lists “unification” as one of OPCh’s research areas — a term that also reflects China’s position on Taiwan. In 2024, the group visited Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei, indicating that it seeks to maintain ties with both China and Taiwan. In 2014, OPCh signed a cooperation agreement with the European regional office of Xinhua, the official news agency of the People’s Republic of China. Under the agreement, the two parties pledged to exchange information and analysis, and co-organize seminars. OPCh has also co-run the Minzu Program (Programa Minzu) — an exchange program on governance of ethnic autonomy — with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院民族學與人類學研究所), a think tank directly under China’s State Council. It is also a member of the Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network (SIRONET), launched in 2017, a China-led group that claims to serve as a platform for civil society engagement related to Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative.  In 2021, it signed a cooperation agreement on the promotion and study of the concept of a “Community with Shared Future” with the Institute for a Community with Shared Future (人類命運共同體研究院) at the Communication University of China in Beijing — a research center built around the concept of a “community of shared future for mankind” (人類命運共同體), a core Xi Jinping foreign policy concept. Ríos himself lived and worked in China between 2006 and 2010. His articles in translation have on several occasions made it into China’s [Reference News](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E8%83%A1%E5%88%A9%E5%A5%A5%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%A5%A5%E6%96%AF%22+%22%E5%8F%82%E8%80%83%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF%22&rlz=1C5CHFAenUS968US968&oq=%22%E8%83%A1%E5%88%A9%E5%A5%A5%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%A5%A5%E6%96%AF%22+%22%E5%8F%82%E8%80%83%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF%22&gslcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTExMTY5ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) (參考消息), a Xinhua-published newspaper that selectively translates foreign media articles. Since late 2022, the OPCh has been directed by Mexican scholar Raquel Isamara León de la Rosa.