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Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Government

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The Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Government (黑龍江省人民政府) serves as the executive administrative authority of Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, headquartered in Harbin. The province reached its current boundaries and capital arrangement in August 1954, when the former Heilongjiang and Songjiang provinces were merged following a June 1954 decree from China’s Central People’s Government, according to the provincial government’s own historical account. As a provincial-level government under China’s State Council, it oversees economic development, public administration, and policy implementation across the province’s prefecture-level divisions. Given Heilongjiang’s border with Russia’s Amur region, the government has emphasized cross-border trade and communication initiatives, including provincial support for outbound-facing media platforms such as the Heilongjiang Daily Press Group, which operates under guidance from the provincial Chinese Communist Party committee’s propaganda apparatus.

Qingdao Binhai University

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Qingdao Binhai University (青島濱海學院) is a private university in Qingdao’s West Coast New Area, Shandong province. Founded in 1992, it became one of Shandong’s first two private institutions authorized to grant bachelor’s degrees in 2005, according to the university’s own profile. The university reports approximately 24,000 full-time students and around 200 international students studying on campus annually, with a cumulative total of more than 2,000 long-term international students from nearly 30 countries over its history. It maintains partnerships with more than 140 universities and research institutions across 40 countries, including Russia, and Taiwan. The university operates a Shandong Provincial Foreign Affairs Research and Development Think Tank (山東省外事研究與發展智庫), one of several provincially designated research platforms hosted on campus. In April 2026, the university’s International Civil Diplomacy Research Center signed a cooperation agreement with the Russian outlet Dragon Newspaper.

GBTimes Oy

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GBTimes Oy (環球時代傳媒有限公司) is a Tampere-based Finnish media company producing China-related radio, print, and online content for European audiences. According to its own About Us page, the outlet was founded as Radio86 in 2004 and has “gradually worked to become the web’s most extensive China-related information base,” publishing news, travel, politics, food, history, and entertainment content in 11 languages, including English, Finnish, Swedish, and Chinese. GBTimes was formally registered as a Finnish company in 2007. In 2015, independent researcher Jichang Lulu told Reuters in 2015 that the network’s aim was “selling China’s story to the world” while “portray[ing] the content as coming from an independent party.” GBTiimes Oy CEO Zhao Yinong (趙亦農) told Reuters that CRI paid his firm “several million euros” annually, more than half its revenue, to produce local-language programming. When Reuters asked why CRI was working through private companies abroad, he defended the practice, saying there was no “no difference” between his operation and the US government-funded Voice of America (VOA). According to a separate Reuters report, a 60 percent stake in the Finnish company was held by a subsidiary of state broadcaster China Radio International (中國國際廣播電台). GBTimes Oy was part of a broader global network of 33 CRI-linked radio stations across 14 countries, “from Finland to Nepal to Australia, and from Philadelphia to San Francisco,” including a counterpart in Australia run by Melbourne-based media proprietor Tommy Jiang (姜兆慶) through Global CAMG Media. Four Corners, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation program, reported that CAMG’s radio stations functioned as an overseas outlet for Chinese state messaging and that Jiang was a major donor to Australia’s two main political parties.  

ISCOM

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ISCOM, or the Institut Supérieur de Communication, is a private French institution that trains students for careers in communications and advertising, with eight campuses across France. According to ISCOM’s own description of the school, it combines academic coursework with practical, hands-on training built on ongoing partnerships with industry professionals. Caroline Grassaud has directed the school’s Paris campus since 2023. In June 2026, Grassaud signed a cooperation agreement with the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学), arranging a student exchange tied to the Chinese university’s School of Advertising and Brand Communication. ISCOM is marking its 40th anniversary this year.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (布鲁塞尔自由大学), or VUB, is a Dutch-speaking public research university in Brussels, Belgium. According to the university’s own account of its history, it traces its roots to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by lawyer Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen as a secular alternative to church-run higher education, which split along linguistic lines in 1969 into VUB and the French-speaking Université libre de Bruxelles. VUB became a fully independent institution in 1970. The university enrolls roughly 22,000 students across eight faculties and campuses in Etterbeek, Jette, Anderlecht, and Pajottegem. VUB previously hosted a Confucius Institute, a Chinese state-funded language and culture program, established in 2015 and shut down in 2019 after Belgian security services accused its director of working as a recruiter for Chinese intelligence.

Klasszik Radio

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Klasszik Rádió is a private commercial station that began broadcasting classical music in Budapest on December 1, 2009, and airs different types of classical music content alongside Hungarian and English-language news. In December 2010, the station partnered with GBTimes, a Finnish-registered but Chinese-owned distributor tied to China Radio International (CRI), selling part of its airtime. On June 24, 2011, it halted regular programming to air Chinese state-produced content timed precisely to the arrival of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶), the first visit to Hungary by a Chinese premier in 24 years, investigative Hungarian outlet Direkt36 reported.

China Foundation for Human Rights Development

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The China Foundation for Human Rights Development (中国人权发展基金会), or CFHRD, is a Beijing-based charity founded on August 15, 1994, that describes itself as a nongovernmental public foundation. Its own founding charter states that its supervising authority is “the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (Information Office of the State Council),” according to CMP’s own research. CFHRD funds the China Society for Human Rights Studies, Beijing’s primary vehicle for promoting an alternative, state-centered vision of human rights inside UN institutions, and has organized sideline events at UN human rights proceedings in Geneva. It holds special consultative status with the UN’s Economic and Social Council. While the foundation’s address is listed in online materials as being in Beijing, at a street address shared with the Development Research Center (DRC) of China’s State Council, Google Maps listing for the foundation also shows a second address in Shanghai, at Jincheng Building, 1399 Haining Road.

Copenhagen Post

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The Copenhagen Post is an English-language newspaper in Denmark, providing daily newsletters and online news. Founded in 1997, the post is today published by The Post ApS. The Post receives subsidies to support its work from the Agency for Culture and Palaces (Mediestøtte) under the government, and its operation is regulated under the Danish Media Liability Act.

Chinese Embassy in Denmark

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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Denmark is China’s chief diplomatic mission to the Kingdom of Denmark, located in Copenhagen. China and Denmark established diplomatic relations on January 9, 1950, making Denmark the second country to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China following its establishment on October 1, 1949. China is Denmark’s largest Asian trading partner, with around 500 Danish companies operating business in China. In late 2025, the embassy exerted its diplomatic power to pressure the Danish newspaper Berlingske after reporting that the Chinese military modernization may be a way to reunify Taiwan during the 80th anniversary military parade.