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Top News

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Top News (ท็อปนิวส์) is a Thai-language broadcast and digital news outlet owned by Top News Digital Media Co., Ltd. Its founder, Sonthiyan Chuenruthainaitham, was sentenced in 2021 to eight months in prison for his role in the 2013–2014 “Shutdown Bangkok” street protests against the government of Yingluck Shinawatra. Sonthiyan previously ran T News, a television outlet that shut down after sustaining roughly 70 million baht in losses. Prior to founding Top News, Sonthiyan’s other media holdings — T News, INN News, and Spring News, under News Network Corp — acquired a controlling stake in Nation Multimedia Group, publisher of Nation Thailand, in January 2018. Khaosod English described T News at the time as “ardently ultra-royalist and pro-junta.” In July 2026, Top News was one of three Thai outlets named by the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok as having published a signed op-ed by Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jianwei.

Curierul Național

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Curierul Național is a Romanian-language daily newspaper, first published on December 5, 1990. The paper is owned by the Păunescu family through Media Sud Publishing, and focuses on economic and financial news, covering companies, energy, agriculture, taxation, real estate, and tourism, alongside domestic politics, foreign affairs, culture, and sport. The paper describes itself as “an independent publication, with no political affiliation,” stating that its funding is “exclusively private, 100% from advertising, announcements, or commercial contracts.” In its own 35th-anniversary retrospective, the outlet describes itself as a founding member and Board of Co-Chairs member of the Belt and Road Economic Information Partnership (一帶一路經濟信息共享網絡), an economic-information-sharing network launched in Beijing in June 2019 by China’s state news agency Xinhua (新華社), and separately describes itself as a “partner of CCTV News Agency.”

Nation Thailand

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Nation Thailand is an English-language online news outlet published in Bangkok. It was founded on July 1, 1971, by its own account the first Thai-owned English-language newspaper in the country, initially under the name “The Voice of the Nation,” later shortened to The Nation. The paper published its final print edition on June 28, 2019, after 48 years, and has continued since as an online-only outlet. In January 2018, per Khaosod English, Nation Multimedia Group was acquired by Sonthiyan Chuenruthainaitham — later the founder of Top News — through a controlling stock stake held by News Network Corp (T News, INN News, Spring News). In July 2026, Nation Thailand republished a signed op-ed by Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jianwei marking the 105th anniversary of the CCP’s founding and the 51st anniversary of China-Thailand diplomatic relations.

Hebei Provincial Journalists Association

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The Hebei Provincial Journalists Association (河北省新聞工作者協會), founded in April 1957, is a provincial-level organization operating under the leadership of the Hebei Provincial Committee of the CCP. The association describes itself as a “bridge” between the party and the press, stating that its mission includes guiding journalists in studying Xi Jinping Thought and upholding the “correct political direction” (正確的政治方向). The association also states that its duties include liaising with, guiding, and providing services to journalist associations in Hebei’s localities, and that it serves “international communication capacity-building” by helping “tell China’s story well” and “tell Hebei’s story well” (講好中國故事、河北故事).

Hebei Provincial Committee of the CCP

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The Hebei Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨河北省委員會) is the highest organ of CCP authority in Hebei Province. As with all provincial-level party committees in China, it sits above the provincial government in the political hierarchy — the committee’s Party Secretary outranks the governor. First convened on July 12, 1949, with Lin Tie as its founding secretary, the committee oversees all party work in Hebei, controls key personnel appointments across government, media, and state enterprises, and implements directives from the CCP Central Committee. Hebei Daily (河北日報), founded August 1, 1949, serves as the committee’s official media organ. As of January 2025, Ni Yuefeng (倪岳峰) serves as the committee’s Party Secretary. The committee’s headquarters are located at No. 46 Weiming South Street, Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang.

Chinese Embassy in Slovakia

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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Slovakia (中華人民共和國駐斯洛伐克共和國大使館) is China’s chief diplomatic mission to the Slovak Republic, located in Bratislava. China first established diplomatic relations with the former Czechoslovakia on October 6, 1949. When Slovakia became an independent state on January 1, 1993, China immediately recognized the Slovak Republic and established relations at the ambassadorial level. In November 2024, the two countries elevated ties to a strategic partnership. Slovakia has become China’s fourth-largest trading partner and largest source of imports in Central and Eastern Europe. Chinese ambassadors have regularly published op-eds in outlets described as fringe or alternative Slovak media, including Nové Slovo and Slovenské Národné Noviny. In 2025, for example, Ambassador Cai Ge published an opinion piece in Nové Slovo arguing that Taiwan is part of China and that reunification is “unstoppable.”

Chinese Embassy in Georgia

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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Georgia (中華人民共和國駐格魯吉亞大使館) is China’s chief diplomatic mission to Georgia, located in Tbilisi. The embassy handles visas and consular services and promotes trade, investment, and cultural exchange between the two countries. China was among the first countries to establish formal diplomatic relations with Georgia following its independence from the Soviet Union, on June 9, 1992. In June 2026, the two countries upgraded ties to a “comprehensive strategic partnership,” building on a strategic partnership established in 2023. In May 2024, Georgia’s parliament passed a “foreign agents” law requiring NGOs and media outlets that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as serving foreign interests. The law triggered mass protests in Tbilisi and was condemned by the EU as a threat to Georgia’s democratic path. The Chinese ambassador said the law was “a matter of domestic politics” and that China’s non-interference reflected respect for Georgian sovereignty. The Digital Forensic Research Lab later found that these comments were amplified across pro-government Facebook and Telegram pages as part of a broader campaign framing China as more respectful of Georgian sovereignty than the US and EU.

Yeni Neşriyat A.Ş.

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Yeni Neşriyat A.Ş. is the Istanbul-based publishing company that owns and operates Millî Gazete, a Turkish daily newspaper that describes itself as representing Millî Görüş (“National View”), the movement founded by Necmettin Erbakan whose political vehicles have been characterized by Britannica as Islamist. Company filings listed on the paper’s own masthead identify Ömer Yüksel Özek as acting on the company’s behalf as license holder and general manager. Apple’s App Store lists Yeni Neşriyat A.Ş. as the developer of Millî Gazete’s mobile applications, confirming the corporate link. In July 2026, Millî Gazete’s editorial department head was among the foreign media figures hosted on a state-organized seminar in Xinjiang, organized by China’s State Council Information Office.

Mundo Obrero

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Mundo Obrero (“Workers’ World”) is the official publication of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), first published on August 23, 1930, shortly after the fall of Spain’s Primo de Rivera dictatorship. Under the Franco dictatorship the paper was repeatedly suppressed; according to Público, imprisoned PCE militants handwrote miniature, illustrated copies of the paper and smuggled them out of Francoist prisons for clandestine distribution. It returned to open circulation after the PCE’s legalization in 1977, and is currently published as a monthly print magazine alongside a daily news website, based in Madrid. In July 2026, the outlet published its own account of a State Council Information Office-organized seminar in Xinjiang, describing Urumqi as a logistics hub of the “New Belt and Road” — Xinhua separately quoted a Mundo Obrero columnist, identified as Jesús Rodríguez Rojo, praising Xinjiang’s “smart agriculture” during the same trip.