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Union of Journalists of Tajikistan

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The Union of Journalists of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦記者聯盟) is Tajikistan’s oldest national journalists’ organization. It was established in 1959 at the first congress of journalists of what was then the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. The union describes itself as an independent, self-governing public organization. It brings together journalists’ unions from the country’s regions, cities and districts, with branches in the Khatlon, Sughd and Gorno-Badakhshan regions. Its Dushanbe office is at 16 Sadi Sherozi Avenue, the same building that houses the state news agency Khovar and the state newspaper Jumhuriyat. The union operates in a severely restricted media environment. In 2024, a European Parliament motion on state repression against independent media noted that dozens of Tajik journalists had gone into exile. In October 2026, the union signed a cooperation agreement with the 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 agreement provides for building a joint “Tajikistan and China Journalists’ Home” mechanism. A day later, the union joined the ACJA’s International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家).

National Federation of Journalists Brazil

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Founded on September 20, 1946, the National Federation of Journalists (巴西全國記者聯合會), or FENAJ, is Brazil’s national body of regional journalist trade unions, headquartered in Brasília. FENAJ does not enroll individual journalists directly. Its members are the state and municipal journalist unions, which numbered 31 in 2023, according to a FENAJ letter from that year. FENAJ defends the labor rights of journalists and is elected by direct vote of journalists nationwide. It is the Brazilian affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest federation of journalists’ unions. FENAJ has also developed ties with the 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. In 2018, the two organizations signed an agreement in Brasília to exchange news about the Belt and Road Initiative and to jointly organize seminars, training, interviews and awards. In July 2025, FENAJ received an ACJA certificate designating it an “International Home of Journalists” (國際記者之家). The designation commits it to hosting foreign journalists from the ACJA-led Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台) who visit Brazil.

International Home of Journalists

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The International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家) is a program through which the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, recruits foreign journalist associations, largely from the Global South, into a China-centered partnership network, with members in countries including Brazil, Cabo Verde, Zambia, Chile, Mongolia, Slovakia, and Tajikistan. The ACJA is an ostensible professional association that serves a key role in licensing journalists and implementing press control policies within the profession. The program presents itself as a “home base” for journalists worldwide. According to a CCP party-building website, the network is meant to help members “tell China’s story well” (講好中國故事), a directive Xi Jinping has promoted since 2013 urging media to spread positive narratives about China abroad, and to extend China’s discourse power overseas. The ACJA proposed the program in October 2023 and launched it at the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing, where it awarded membership certificates to organizations from more than 20 countries. The program operates 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. New cohorts have received certificates formalizing their membership at each subsequent forum, 11 in 2025 and 10 in 2026. State media reported that the 2026 cohort, which included journalist bodies from Slovakia and Tajikistan, brought membership to organizations from more than 40 countries. Other members include the Brazilian Press Association, the Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde, and the Zambia Science and Technology Media Alliance. The program also organizes joint reporting trips and interviews, essay competitions, training programs, and an annual roundtable at which members meet Chinese officials. It runs a Facebook page with nearly 576,000 followers as of October 2026. Chinese state media have tied the program to Xi’s “community of shared future for mankind” (人類命運共同體), his signature foreign policy slogan for a China-led vision of world order.

Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde

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The Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde (佛得角記者協會), or AJOC, is Cabo Verde’s journalists’ union. It was founded on November 24, 1990 and is based in the Plateau district of the capital, Praia. Its full Portuguese name, Associação Sindical dos Jornalistas de Cabo Verde, identifies it as a union association. Its members work in the press, radio, television, news agencies and online media, and it advocates for journalists’ professional and social interests nationwide. AJOC is a national partner of the Media Foundation for West Africa, an Accra-based press freedom organization, which describes AJOC as independent of the state, political parties and economic interests. In October 2026, AJOC joined the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家). The network is run by the 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.

Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Italy

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The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Italy (義大利中國商會) is a Milan-based association representing Chinese companies operating in Italy. It describes itself as a “non-profit, non-governmental organization.” Originally opened in 2008 as the “Italian Association of Chinese Enterprises,” it was officially renamed in 2021. According to its website, the chamber is “approved” (批准) by Italy’s Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy — the government body responsible for industrial and business policies — and supported by the PRC’s Ministry of Commerce. Chinese state broadcaster CGTN described it as the only recognized organization representing Chinese enterprises in Italy, with more than 120 members.

Anhui International Communication Center

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Established in 2021, the Anhui International Communication Center (安徽国际传播中心) is a state-run hub for external communication in Anhui Province. According to its official department profile, the center runs the Anhui provincial government’s English-language news website and produces multilingual news content disseminated through several external-facing social media accounts. The Anhui ICC is part of the Anhui New Media Group (安徽新媒体集团), which falls under the direction of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Office, according to its website. That slogan, introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, calls on Chinese media to give foreign audiences a positive picture of China and the Chinese Communist Party. The expansion of ICCs is part of Xi Jinping’s broader effort since 2018 to strengthen external propaganda by using provincial media resources to amplify centrally approved narratives about China.

Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Lagos

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The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Lagos (中華人民共和國駐拉各斯總領事館) is a diplomatic mission under China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, opened in 2003. Beyond standard consular work, including issuing visas to Nigerians and handling passport affairs and travel documents for Chinese nationals, the office engages with Lagos state officials and Nigerian think tanks to promote Chinese policy positions. In October 2026, then-Director of Bilateral Relations and Commerce Xu Fan (徐帆) met with Nigerian media executives to explain the Chinese Communist Party’s position on Taiwan and the “One China Principle,” China’s sovereignty claim over Taiwan.

Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center

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The Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center (秘華文化中心), known in Spanish as the Centro Cultural Peruano Chino, is a non-profit organization that describes itself as dedicated to the integration and cultural development of the Peruvian-Chinese community, or tusán. It was founded on August 30, 1981, and runs Villa Tusán, a social, cultural and sports club on the Carretera Central east of Lima. China’s government-run news agency, Xinhua, has described it as an organization of mainly Peruvian-born professionals, such as scholars and engineers, that promotes Chinese traditional culture and Peru-China exchange, with more than 1,800 members. The center has worked with the PRC Embassy on public projects. It co-created the Parque Chino (Chinese Park) in Lima’s Miraflores district with the embassy and the Chinese community, and in July 2026 its representatives attended an embassy ceremony presenting replicas of Qin dynasty terracotta warriors to the Municipality of Lima. It is one of three members of the Patronato that manages Lima’s Chinese-funded Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center).

Chinese Benevolent Society Peru

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The Chinese Benevolent Society (秘魯中華通惠總局) is Peru’s oldest and most influential Chinese community organization and the national umbrella body for Chinese and Chinese-Peruvian associations across the country. It is registered in Spanish as the Sociedad Central de Beneficencia China Ton Huy Chong Koc, a name that formerly lacked the romanized Chinese suffix. It was founded in 1886 by Zheng Zaoru (鄭藻如), the Qing dynasty’s envoy to Peru, and today oversees a network of affiliated associations in Lima and the provinces. The society maintains close ties with the PRC Embassy. In December 2022, Ambassador Song Yang (宋揚) briefed its leaders on the “spirit” of the CCP’s 20th Party Congress and urged them to “support the embassy’s work” (支持使館工作). Embassy diplomats attended the installation of its 2026–2028 board. In February 2025, the society co-organized a Spring Festival gala at Peru’s National Theater with the embassy and the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中華全國歸國華僑聯合會). In August 2025, it hosted a war commemoration co-organized by the Peru Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (秘魯中國和平統一促進會), a body tied to the CCP’s United Front system. According to RTHK, the society has also been invited to take part in Beijing’s foreign aid program, distributing emergency funds to Chinese citizens in Peru. It is one of three members of the Patronato that manages Lima’s Chinese-funded Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center).