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Dr. Metastar

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Dr. Metastar (鹿見寰宇) is an Indonesia-based Chinese-language news and media platform operated by Zhang Weijia (章維佳), who serves as its president. The outlet describes itself as focused on China-Indonesia economic and trade news, financial information, and exhibition coverage, using the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a large Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, as an editorial framework for connecting Chinese and Indonesian business communities. Its website carries the odd tagline “From the Earth’s Surface to the Metaverse.” Content on the site is heavily drawn from China News Service (中國新聞社), or CNS, a Chinese state media outlet directly under the CCP’s United Front Work Department (UFWD), the party organ responsible for managing overseas Chinese communities and extending CCP influence abroad. Little original reporting is evident on the site, and its content on major social media platforms such as Instagram is also largely sourced from CNS, raising the possibility that Dr. Metastar functions primarily as a front site for CNS and the UFWD. The site’s China news section carried coverage framed around Beijing’s positions on Taiwan and cross-strait relations, as well as promotional video content produced jointly by CNS and the China Internet Development Foundation (中國互聯網發展基金會), a state-linked body operating under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s internet regulator and censorship authority. The videos featured foreigners praising life in China, a format commonly used in Chinese state soft power campaigns. The outlet participated in a June 2025 state-organized overseas Chinese media tour of Xinjiang, a far-western Chinese region under intense international scrutiny for the government’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority, under the banner “Chasing the Chinese Dream: Beautiful Xinjiang” (追夢中華·大美新疆). Zhang was also among the overseas Chinese media representatives appointed as a “Wu-Yue Culture Overseas Promotion Officer” at the May 2026 Lin’an event in China. Zhang also holds the position of deputy secretary-general of the General Association of Indonesian Chinese (印尼華裔總會), an overseas Chinese community organization, and has participated in state-organized tours of Chinese economic development zones, including a 2025 visit to Hainan’s Free Trade Zone, where she was quoted by China News Service praising the zone’s trade facilitation policies.

Finance Vision Australia

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Finance Vision Australia (財視澳洲), also known as Fortune Connects Australia, is a Sydney-based Australian Chinese-language media outlet founded in 2015 by Zhan Jinlong (詹金龍), a Shanghai-born media executive who studied in Japan before relocating to Australia. The outlet focuses on financial and investment news for the Chinese-speaking community in Australia, and has organized investment summits and business events aimed initially at helping Chinese companies expand overseas, and more recently at attracting foreign investment into China. Its website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number, suggesting ties to a mainland Chinese corporate entity, and its copyright is held by Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd (澳洲龍一集團). The outlet’s friendship links include the Guangdong Provincial Overseas Chinese Federation (广東省僑聯), a body under the supervision of the Guangdong provincial United Front Work Department, a Chinese Communist Party organ tasked with managing overseas Chinese communities, as well as pro-Beijing outlets including Ta Kung Pao (大公報) and Wen Wei Po (文匯報). According to reporting by Wen Wei Po, Zhan described the outlet’s role as countering what he characterized as biased Western media coverage of China. The outlet has participated in multiple tours of Chinese industrial facilities organized for overseas Chinese media delegations, including a 2025 visit to Shaolin Bus Co. (少林客車) in Xingyang, a city in China’s central Henan Province, organized by the Ta Kung Wen Wei International Communication Center (大公文匯國際傳播中心), a body linked to the above-mentioned pair of pro-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong. Finance Vision Australia was also among the 30 overseas Chinese media outlets represented at the May 2026 Wu-Yue culture promotion event in Lin’an. Neither the outlet nor Zhan appears to maintain a significant independent online presence, and references to Finance Vision Australia online are almost entirely drawn from announcements for events related to the United Front Work Department-backed World Chinese Media Co-Operation Union.

Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd

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Longyi Group Australia (澳洲龍一集團), registered formally as Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd with Australian company number ACN 168256666, is a Melbourne-based investment and media company focused on facilitating bilateral investment between Australia and China. The group owns Finance Vision Australia (財視澳洲), the Chinese-language media outlet, and maintains branch operations in Shanghai, China, through two subsidiaries: Shanghai Longyi Advertising Co. Ltd (上海龍一廣告有限公司) and Shanghai Longyi Immigration and Visa Services Co. Ltd (上海龍一出入境服務有限公司). The group’s website is longyigroup.cn, a Chinese domestic domain, and Finance Vision Australia’s website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number — both suggesting the group’s operational center of gravity lies in mainland China despite its Australian incorporation.

Grupo Lucrea

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Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團), registered formally in Spanish as Lucrea Diseño S.L., is a Madrid-based Chinese-owned advertising, marketing, and event management company founded in 2018 and headquartered at Calle Embajadores 199, 28045, Madrid. The company describes itself as the only Chinese-run advertising firm in Spain with fully integrated online and offline advertising channels, and claims membership in AUTOCONTROL, Spain’s advertising self-regulation association. Its services include graphic design, social media management, outdoor advertising placement, and business event planning and execution. By its own account, the company had by 2019 established partnerships with more than 30 media and independent media platforms across Europe, serving over 200 client companies in Europe, the United States, Canada, and China. Past projects listed on its website include the 40th anniversary celebration of the Association of Chinese in Spain, a Confucius cultural exhibition, and the Spain and Portugal premiere of the Chinese film No More Bets (萬里歸途). According to Ouhua Media Group’s own account, Grupo Lucrea took a controlling stake in Ouhua Media Group (歐華傳媒集團) in late 2025.

Indonesia Shang Bao

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Indonesia Shang Bao (印度尼西亞商報) is a Mandarin-language daily newspaper published in Jakarta, Indonesia, covering business, finance, politics, and international news. Founded on April 17, 2000, it was the first Chinese-language daily established in Indonesia following the collapse of President Suharto’s New Order government in May 1998. Under Suharto, who ruled from 1967 until his resignation that year, all Chinese-language education and private media were banned, making the paper’s founding a marker of the post-authoritarian reform era. The paper was previously part of the Bisnis Indonesia Group, which launched it through a subsidiary, PT Aksara Warta Mandarin, before subsequently divesting its majority stake; its current ownership structure is not publicly confirmed. The paper publishes at least 20 pages daily. According to the World Chinese Media Cooperation Alliance (世界華文媒體合作聯盟) member directory, it also publishes The GEO Time, an Indonesian-language weekly magazine, and has since 2013 reproduced content from Beijing’s Life Times (生命時報) on health and medical topics. In May 2026, a new media operations director of the paper participated in the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi Province, China.

Kia Hua Tong Nguan

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Kia Hua Tong Nguan (京華中原聯合日報) is a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand, and one of the few surviving Chinese-language print titles in the country. The paper was founded on July 16, 1984, through the merger of two earlier Bangkok-based Chinese-language dailies, Kia Hua (京華日報) and Chung Yuan (中原日報), with Chung Yuan ceasing publication on July 15, 1984, and folding into Kia Hua. The paper’s predecessor, Kia Hua, was founded in 1957 and was at the time the only Chinese-language newspaper in Thailand licensed by the government. The paper is published under the Thai corporate name Sirinakorn, as confirmed by a 2015 Bangkok Post profile of a journalist who worked at “Chinese newspaper Sirinakorn (Jinghua Ribao),” the predecessor title (also confirmed with this source). It publishes 28 pages daily across sections covering news, international affairs, community news, business, stock markets, entertainment, health, and education, and has historically served the ethnic Chinese community in Thailand. In May 2026, an international edition editor of the paper participated in the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi Province, China.

The Brussels Times

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The Brussels Times is an English-language Belgian news outlet founded in 1965 as a broadsheet newspaper and revived in its current digital and print form in 2014. Owned by BXL Connect and headquartered on Avenue Louise in Brussels, it describes itself as Belgium’s largest daily news medium in English, with over two million monthly visits. Its stated mission is to provide expatriates, foreigners, and internationally oriented Belgians with coverage of Belgian news, EU affairs, and opinion. The outlet’s editorial policy and code of conduct, published on its website, commits the publication to independence from advertisers, sponsors, and owners, and to full transparency on funding sources and conflicts of interest. The magazine is distributed across EU institutions, more than 100 embassies and representations to the EU, and over 7,000 hotel rooms, giving it particular reach among Brussels-based diplomats and policymakers. 

Dimokratia

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Dimokratia (Δημοκρατία) is a Greek daily newspaper founded in 2010. It covers national politics, social issues, and foreign affairs, with particular attention to Greece’s relations with neighboring countries. The paper is published across print and digital platforms. Its coverage of Greek-Turkish tensions has at times drawn international attention. In 2020, Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation into the paper and its editors after it published a headline insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, in response to disputes over contested waters in the eastern Mediterranean.

University of Salamanca

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The University of Salamanca (Universidad de Salamanca), founded in 1218, is one of the oldest universities in the world and Spain’s foremost public research institution, enrolling over 30,000 students across four campuses with 72 undergraduate and 86 official master’s programs. In October 2017, the Chinese Embassy in Spain sent an urgent email to the university’s president and dean demanding cancellation of its inaugural “Taiwan Cultural Days” — warning the event “would affect the university’s good relations with China” — and the university complied the same day, deleting all mention of the event from its website and social media. The incident, which only became public knowledge in August 2018 after a lecturer went public with the embassy’s email, drew widespread condemnation as an instance of Beijing pressuring European academic institutions. In May 2025, the university and Guizhou University (貴州大學) jointly established a Confucius Institute (孔子學院) — institutions that have faced sustained criticism over academic freedom — which a Guizhou University representative described as “advancing the Belt and Road Initiative” (推進一帶一路倡議).