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Activity Category: Media Engagement Activity

Bridging News Opens Office at Brazilian Press Association

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On November 8, 2024, the Brazilian Press Association (巴西新聞協會), or ABI, signed a strategic cooperation agreement in São Paulo with Chongqing’s Western International Communication Center (西部國際傳播中心), or WICC, to set up a Bridging News Brazil Liaison Office. The agreement was reported by Forum Macao (中國—葡語國家經貿合作論壇), a Macau-based platform backed by the Chinese government, citing the ABI. Bridging News is one of the WICC’s international platforms. The WICC is run by the Chongqing Daily News Group (重慶日報報業集團) under the guidance of the municipality’s propaganda office, and it was China’s first provincial-level international communication center, or ICC. ICCs are local and regional hubs created under Xi Jinping’s push since 2018 to reinvent China’s international communication, which the Chinese Communist Party still calls “external propaganda” (對外宣傳). They repurpose local propaganda content for foreign audiences. ABI Director of Journalism Moacyr de Oliveira Filho and WICC Director Zhao Wujun signed the agreement at an event promoting Chongqing brands in Brazil. According to the report, the office will promote Chongqing’s brands in Brazil and Latin America and support financial news reporting and services for Chinese companies seeking to expand in Brazil. The agreement came two months after the ABI joined the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家), a network run by 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.

Nanjing Forum Expands ACJA Global Journalist Network

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On October 17, 2026, 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, convened the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing. The ACJA co-hosted the forum with the propaganda office of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the Nanjing Municipal People’s Government. About 100 heads of journalist organizations and media representatives from more than 50 countries and regions attended. The event was held under the Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台), an international platform the ACJA co-founded with foreign journalist groups in 2019. Mo Gaoyi (莫高義), deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department and director of the State Council Information Office, addressed the opening. In his keynote, ACJA President He Ping (何平) urged journalists to answer “decoupling” and “small yard, high fence” policies by telling the Silk Road story of “extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits” (共商共建共享), a core Belt and Road Initiative slogan. Beijing uses the two terms to criticize US restrictions on exports of advanced technology to China, and US and European efforts to reduce economic dependence on China, including EU trade measures against Chinese goods it considers unfairly subsidized or dumped. 10 journalist organizations, including bodies from Cabo Verde, Chile, Mongolia and Zambia, received certificates admitting them to the ACJA’s International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家). The opening ceremony also launched a Global South Journalists Workshop Program (全球南方國家記者研修計劃). Its first workshop, themed on AI and the Silk Road, opened at Nanjing University the next day. The forum also opened a Belt and Road journalists’ station at the Xinhua Daily Media Group (新華報業傳媒集團), following earlier stations in Chongqing and Jiangxi, to host foreign reporters visiting China. Xinhua reported that International Home of Journalists membership now spans more than 40 countries, and that such stations have received more than 480 journalists from more than 180 media outlets.

ACJA Delegation Visits Nouvelles d’Europe in Paris

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On July 20, 2026, a Chinese journalists’ delegation headed by Zhang Chunjiao (張春校), vice chair of 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 Paris-area offices of Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報), according to the newspaper’s own report. Nouvelles d’Europe is a French-based Chinese-language newspaper with ties to the state-run China News Service and the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Zhong Cheng (鍾誠), president of the Nouvelles d’Europe Culture and Media Group, and Xie Tian (謝添), the newspaper’s executive vice president, received the delegation. The delegation toured the newspaper’s cultural center and its Chinese-language school. They then joined a roundtable with representatives of France-based news organizations and Chinese-language media, at which Zhong presented the newspaper’s operations. At the end of the visit, both sides pledged to further strengthen exchanges and cooperation.

Brazilian Press Association Signs ACJA Memorandum

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On June 16, 2025, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), founded in 1908 and one of Brazil’s oldest press organizations, signed a memorandum of understanding in Rio de Janeiro with 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, according to the ABI. Wu Xu (吳旭), a member of the ACJA Secretariat, signed for the Chinese side. The memorandum formalized a relationship that began in 2023. In August 2024, the ABI was admitted to the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家), an ACJA initiative that recruits foreign journalist associations into a China-centered network. In November of that year, the ABI began hosting a liaison office for Bridging News, a news service run by China’s West China International Communication Organization.

Global Times Hosts China-Germany Media Forum in Heidelberg

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From October 14 to 16, 2026, the state-run Global Times (環球時報), a tabloid published by the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily (人民日報), hosted the 17th Media Forum China-Germany (第十七屆中德媒體圓桌會) in the southwestern German city of Heidelberg. The forum has long been run in partnership with China Media Management Inc. (CMM-I傳媒諮詢有限公司), a Beijing-based media consulting firm. According to the Global Times, senior journalists, media executives and scholars from both countries discussed 10 topics, including China-Germany relations, global security, AI governance and media responsibility. Coverage from the Global Times framed the forum around Xi Jinping’s assessment of “great changes unseen in a century” (百年未有之大變局), which the CCP uses as its official assessment that the world is accelerating toward multipolarity, driven by the rise of developing economies and China’s growing national power. In his opening remarks, Global Times Deputy Editor-in-Chief Bai Long (百龍) said that China and Germany have long had deeply interconnected interests, with each having a stake in the other. He added that media can create divergent perceptions between the two countries but can also build bridges of understanding. Heidelberg Lord Mayor Eckart Würzner toured the accompanying exhibition, which the Global Times describes as part of a brand activity for promoting “Chinese theory and Chinese thought.” 
The forum was launched in 2010 by Germany’s Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with the Global Times, and the foundation organized it annually for years. German journalist Frank Sieren, a longtime Beijing-based correspondent, co-founded the forum and has served as its moderator. CMM-I managed the forum for the foundation from its early years, and CMM-I partner Anke Redl has continued to manage it. The company was named as an organizer of the 2024 edition and co-hosted the 2025 edition in Shenzhen. Global Times coverage of the 2026 edition did not name a co-organizer. Xu Pei (徐沛), a Germany-based Chinese writer and activist, has argued that the CCP uses the forum to co-opt German media figures for its propaganda. She has also noted that German-language sources presented the Bosch Stiftung as the sole organizer, while Chinese state media named the Global Times as the main organizer. Alongside the forum, the Global Times staged its “Overseas China Week” (海外中國週) initiative with a photo exhibition titled “Green and Innovation: China and Germany Embarking on Vibrant Future.” According to the newspaper, the exhibition aims to bring overseas audiences closer to “Chinese concepts and China’s image.” The initiative has previously staged exhibitions in Kazakhstan, Argentina, Brazil, South Korea, South Africa and Kyrgyzstan.

Tajik Journalists Union Signs ACJA Cooperation Agreement

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On October 16, 2026, the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦記者聯盟) signed a cooperation agreement with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, in Nanjing, according to Tajikistan’s state news agency Khovar, citing the union. The ACJA is an ostensible professional media association that works as a key part of China’s press control apparatus. In its own declarations, the ACJA openly pledges support for the principle of the Chinese Communist Party managing the media (黨管媒體), and for the key censorship principle of “correct public opinion guidance” (正確輿論導向). Union Chairman Zinatullo Ismoilzoda and ACJA President He Ping (何平) signed the five-point agreement. It provides for strengthening cooperation and exchange of experience in the media sphere, reciprocal visits by media representatives, journalist forums, professional development courses for journalists and journalism instructors, internships for media workers, and cultural events. Khovar reported that the agreement would also help create and develop a joint “Tajikistan and China Journalists’ Home” mechanism, a name that mirrors the ACJA’s International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家). The next day, the union was among 10 organizations to receive International Home of Journalists certificates at the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum. Khovar attributed the strengthening relations between the two countries to the “far-sighted policy” of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Brazil’s National Journalists Federation Joins Chinese Network

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On July 19, 2025, Brazil’s National Federation of Journalists, or FENAJ, the chief labor and professional organization representing journalist unions and media workers across the country, received a certificate recognizing it as an “International Home of Journalists” (國際記者之家) at the 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Ganzhou, in China’s Jiangxi province. The International Home of Journalists is an initiative of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, an ostensible professional media association that works as a key part of China’s press control apparatus. In its own declarations, the ACJA openly pledges support for the principle of the Chinese Communist Party managing the media (黨管媒體), and for the key censorship principle of “correct public opinion guidance” (正確輿論導向). The outlet that carried the report, Forum Macao (中國—葡語國家經貿合作論壇), is a Macau-based platform backed by the Chinese government. The report noted that the Brazilian Press Association had received the same recognition in 2024. The title commits FENAJ to hosting foreign journalists from the Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台) who visit or work in Brazil. FENAJ President Samira de Castro said the recognition highlighted journalists’ unity in the face of digital challenges and threats to press freedom, a framing that sits uneasily with the program’s role in China’s press control apparatus. FENAJ was one of 11 organizations to receive certificates at the forum, which also launched a volunteer program under the initiative. FENAJ had already signed a 2018 agreement with the ACJA to exchange news about the Belt and Road Initiative and to jointly run seminars, interviews and awards.

Cabo Verde Journalists Association Joins Chinese Network

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On October 17, 2026, the Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde, or AJOC, received an International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家) partnership certificate at the 2026 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Nanjing, according to the Cabo Verdean outlet Mindel Insite. The International Home of Journalists is an initiative of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, an ostensible professional media association that works as a key part of China’s press control apparatus. In its own declarations, the ACJA openly pledges support for the principle of the Chinese Communist Party managing the media (黨管媒體), and for the key censorship principle of “correct public opinion guidance” (正確輿論導向). AJOC was one of 10 organizations to join the program at the forum, alongside journalist bodies from Chile, Mongolia, and Zambia. Founded in 1990, AJOC is a journalists’ union and a national partner of the Media Foundation for West Africa, an Accra-based press freedom organization, which describes AJOC as independent of the state and political parties. AJOC joined two months after Clóvis Silva, Cabo Verde’s minister responsible for media, signed a cooperation agreement with China in Beijing. That agreement covers the exchange of radio, television and online audiovisual content and the training of media professionals. The Nanjing forum was held under the ACJA-led Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台), and it also launched a Global South Journalists Workshop Program.

Brazilian Press Association Joins Chinese Journalist Network

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On August 31, 2024, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), founded in 1908 and one of Brazil’s oldest press organizations, received a membership certificate for the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家) at the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing. According to a related announcement from the Brazilian association, ABI Director of Journalism Moacyr de Oliveira Filho accepted the certificate from He Ping (何平), president of 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. The forum opened with remarks by Mo Gaoyi (莫高義), deputy head of China’s Central Propaganda Department. The ABI reported that He urged members to build new narrative structures that would “transcend ideology, social systems and levels of development.” The ABI was among 22 organizations approved for the program that year. The association said its ties with the ACJA date back to 2023, and that its admission to the International Home of Journalists would deepen cooperation. In November 2024, the West China International Communication Organization opened a Bridging News liaison office at the ABI to support news services for Chinese companies seeking to expand in Brazil. In June 2025, the ABI signed a memorandum of understanding with the ACJA in Rio de Janeiro.