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CCP and Nuevas Ideas Party Host Media and Think Tank Exchange

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On April 8, 2024, Liu Jianchao (劉建超), Minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, met in Beijing with a high-level delegation from El Salvador’s ruling party, Nuevas Ideas, led by Vice President-elect Félix Ulloa. During the meeting, Liu emphasized that the CCP is willing to “promote exchanges and cooperation” between the counterpart departments of the two parties, specifically highlighting media and think tanks as key areas for collaboration. This engagement aimed to institutionalize the sharing of “experience in party building and state governance” to ensure the stable development of bilateral relations. The meeting official report by the International Department of the CCP underscores a strategic shift toward direct party-to-party coordination to align the communication apparatus of Nuevas Ideas with the ideological and media frameworks of the CCP.

Want Want China Times Media Group Delegation Visits Beijing Daily Group

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Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led a delegation to Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) on July 6, 2016, meeting with Beijing Daily Group president Fu Hua (傅華) and holding a joint working session. The two sides agreed to jointly organize the Second Cross-Strait Media Summit (第二屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) in Beijing later that year, focusing on cross-strait youth exchange and industrial cooperation. Beijing CCP Committee Secretary and Politburo member Guo Jinlong (郭金龍) separately received the Want Want China Times delegation — including Tsai Eng-meng, former Taichung mayor and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang (胡志強), and Want Want Media Group president Tsai Shao-chung (蔡紹中) — and expressed the Beijing Municipal CCP Committee’s full support for cross-strait media cooperation, urging the two sides to develop the summit into the premier cross-strait media communication platform. At the session, Tsai Eng-meng said Want Want Group was considering establishing a cross-strait youth entrepreneurship and exchange park in Beijing. The visit was reported by Want News, a Want Want China Times subsidiary publication.

Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit Held in Beijing

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The Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit (第四屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing on May 10, 2019, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). Nearly seventy Taiwan media organizations sent representatives, led by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明). CPPCC chairman and Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang (汪洋) received the Taiwan delegation in a closed-door session, directing those present that achieving peaceful unification and one country two systems required the efforts of media colleagues, and mocking Taiwan’s government as unable to guarantee its situation two years hence. Wang Yang further stated that Taiwan independence advocates were mistaken to rely on the United States, which would not go to war with China over Taiwan. The remarks were recorded and leaked the following day, triggering a public controversy in Taiwan. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) convened a national security meeting the same morning the summit took place; the Foreign Ministry and National Security Bureau both issued statements condemning the CCP’s interference in Taiwan’s press freedom. Xinhua News Agency’s dispatch on Wang Yang’s remarks omitted the statements about Taiwan’s government and the United States entirely. The incident was reported by The News Lens and [Up Media](https://www.upmedia.mg/newsinfo.php?Type=24&SerialNo=63014)_.

First Cross-Strait Media Summit Held in Beijing

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The First Cross-Strait Media Summit (第一屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in late 2015, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). The summit was the inaugural event in an annual series established under the strategic cooperation agreement the two groups signed in late 2014, providing a recurring institutional framework for bringing Taiwan media executives to Beijing for meetings with senior CCP officials and state media counterparts. The summit series ran annually from 2015, with the exception of 2018, through at least 2019. Want Want China Times Media Group chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led the Taiwan delegation.

Third Cross-Strait Media Summit Held in Beijing

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The Third Cross-Strait Media Summit (第三屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in December 2017, themed around the thirtieth anniversary of cross-strait journalism exchange. Taiwan Affairs Office (國台辦) and Taiwan Work Office of the CCP Central Committee (中共中央台灣工作辦公室) director Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) attended and addressed the gathering. Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang (胡志強) both attended. The summit was co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group, as reported by The News Lens.

2018 China-Latin America Media Forum

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The 2018 China-Latin America Media Forum took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 19, 2018, focusing on “Deepening Media Cooperation to Help Build a China-Latin America Community with a Shared Future,” according to Xinhua News Agency. Representatives discussed media’s role in bilateral cooperation and new media platforms. Xinhua reported that a Brazilian representative from a financial information group claimed that media plays an “incomparable role” in cooperation, allowing audiences to receive “first-hand information” rather than filtered news from Europe and the United States, language that closely mirrors Chinese state media talking points about Western media bias—as reported by Xinhua. Alejandro Ramos Esquivel (亞歷杭德羅·拉莫斯·埃斯基維爾), who served as Notimex’s Director-General from 2013-2018, reportedly stated the forum brought together diverse media organizations to analyze cooperation trends, predicting collaboration would “flourish” as China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” gains influence. The event highlighted opportunities in website development and capacity building.

Third China-Australia Media Forum Held in Sydney

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The Third China-Australia Media Forum (第三屆中澳媒體論壇) was held in Sydney on August 25, 2014, jointly organized by China’s State Council Information Office (中國國務院新聞辦公室) and Australian News Channel Pty Ltd (澳大利亞新聞頻道股份有限公司). Over 50 government and media representatives from both countries discussed topics including economic cooperation, reporting, and media exchange mechanisms under the theme “Media’s Role in Building Stable China-Australia Relations.” Cai Mingzhao (蔡名照), then-director of China’s State Council Information Office, delivered a keynote speech emphasizing the media’s role in fostering bilateral understanding and proposing three recommendations for strengthening cooperation. Paul Fletcher, representing Australia’s Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, noted the forum provided “a valuable platform” for media exchange. Chinese state media reported that “both sides agreed media exchanges are increasingly close and should continue playing a constructive role in deepening bilateral relations.” The forum, established in April 2006, alternates annually between the two countries.

China-Russia Media Dialogue Focuses on Telling Stories of Bilateral Friendship

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The China-Russia Media Dialogue Forum was held in Beijing on July 31, 2023, bringing together representatives from more than 20 Chinese and Russian media outlets to discuss how to “tell stories of China-Russia friendship in the new era” (講好新時代中俄友好故事). Organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the forum featured representatives from Russian state-run outlets including Rossiyskaya Gazeta, TASS, and RT alongside counterparts from the official People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and the China Media Group (CMG), the state-run media conglomerate under the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department. The two sides, said a readout on the session, shared stories of bilateral cooperation — including joint efforts to fight Covid-19 and exchanges of children from disaster areas. CPAFFC Vice President Yan Dong (鄢東) said media exchanges are a key platform for promoting bilateral friendship, noting that cooperation had yielded “abundant results” in recent years under the strategic guidance of both heads of state. The notion of “telling stories” is a direct reference to Xi Jinping’s policy on “external propaganda” (外宣), centered on the notion of “telling China’s story well” (講好中國故事), which was laid out during a speech in August 2013.

Lancang-Mekong Cooperation 2025 Top Ten News Release

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The China Foreign Languages Bureau (中國外文局), also known as the China International Communication Group (CICG) — one of China’s key external propaganda entities — and Lao PDR propaganda officials jointly released the “Lancang-Mekong Cooperation 2025 Top Ten News” in Luang Prabang, Laos (老撾琅勃拉邦) on February 4, 2026, attended by approximately 200 participants. China Foreign Languages Bureau Vice Director Yu Yunquan (于運全) and Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Propaganda Department Vice Minister Khammon Chanthaxy (坎蒙·占塔吉) co-hosted the event, which emphasized building “multi-level media cooperation networks” and “shaping the Lancang-Mekong narrative system.” Khammon stated that media cooperation has “laid a solid foundation of public opinion” for the Laos-China community of shared future — referencing a core foreign policy concept of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The annual news selection is jointly conducted by Chinese state media including China Report (中國報道) magazine and mainstream media from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, now in its sixth year, designed to coordinate messaging on regional cooperation and strengthen what participants called “narrative collaboration” among the six countries.