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Duna Médiaszolgáltató

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Duna Médiaszolgáltató (DMSZ) is Hungary’s sole public service broadcaster, established on July 1, 2015, and headquartered in Budapest. While DMSZ carries the formal designation of a public service broadcaster, analysts describe it as a shell entity under effective government control, whose CEO holds no functional autonomy. The network has been strongly criticized within the EU in recent years as a pro-government outlet indicative of a general slide in media freedoms in the country. DMSZ was created through a merger of four previously separate public media entities — Magyar Televízió (MTV), Magyar Rádió (MR), Duna TV, and the news agency Magyar Távirati Iroda (MTI) — under reforms carried out during the third government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (2014–2018). The broadcaster currently operates six television channels — including its flagship generalist channel Duna and the news channel M1 — seven radio stations, the MTI news agency, and online services. The broadcaster is also a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Keizei Koho Center

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The Keizai Koho Center (KKC), also known as the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, was established in 1978 as an affiliate of Keidanren (日本經濟團體連合會), a corporate membership federation that is one of Japan’s three major economic organizations. KKC describes itself as a “platform” for the Japanese business community to engage with domestic and international stakeholders, conducting programs through which some 700 companies and 40 industry associations seek to develop ties with lawmakers, government officials, scholars, journalists, business executives, and educators. KKC also analyzes public policy and the Japanese economy, publishes expert commentary and organizes meetings with foreign media to facilitate exchanges between journalists and its member corporations.

Tianjin Municipal People’s Government

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The Tianjin Municipal People’s Government (天津市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Tianjin, a directly administered municipality under the central government of the People’s Republic of China. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the municipality, including economic planning, public services, urban development, and the implementation of national policy at the local level. As with all levels of government in China, the Municipal People’s Government operates subordinate to and under the leadership of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨天津市委員會), which sets the political direction and holds ultimate authority over governance in the municipality.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16, 1945, in London, with its Constitution grounded in the conviction that “peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.” Headquartered in Paris, UNESCO works across 194 member states to strengthen international cooperation in education, science, culture, and information. The organization sets standards, produces tools, and develops knowledge to address global challenges — from protecting biodiversity and safeguarding heritage to ensuring access to reliable information and advancing quality education. In recent years, UNESCO has taken an active role in global AI governance, including through its 2021 Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the first global normative instrument in this domain, as well as practical tools such as its AI Readiness Assessment Methodology and AI Ethical Impact Assessment Toolkit. In the context of China’s expanding AI engagement, UNESCO has participated in forums including the 2025 China-SCO Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Forum in Tianjin, where it contributed to high-level panels on AI governance and security risks.

ASEAN

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization established on August 8, 1967, in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by five founding members: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. The bloc expanded over subsequent decades, with Brunei Darussalam joining in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997, Cambodia in 1999, and Timor-Leste on October 25, 2025, bringing total membership to eleven states. ASEAN’s mandate spans economic integration, political-security cooperation, and sociocultural development across Southeast Asia. Its secretariat is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the context of China engagement, ASEAN has emerged as a key arena for Beijing’s media, technology, and AI diplomacy, including through bilateral trade frameworks such as the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement and cooperative mechanisms covering digital infrastructure, AI governance, and cross-border data flows. In recent years, ASEAN and China have also moved to deepen media exchanges, part of a broader effort to strengthen people-to-people ties and shape shared narratives across the region.

China Academy of Information and Communication Technology

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The China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (中國信息通信研究院), or CAICT, is a state-affiliated research institution established in 1957 and directly subordinate to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工業和信息化部). The academy describes its mission as serving as a “national high-end professional think tank and an industrial innovation and development platform,” guided by the institutional motto “virtue and learning, industry and ambition” (厚德實學 興業致遠). Over the decades, CAICT has played a central role in shaping major strategies, plans, policies, standards, and testing and certification frameworks for China’s information and communications sector. In recent years, the academy has expanded its research portfolio to align with national strategies around China’s ambitions to be a “cyber power” (網絡強國) and “manufacturing power” (製造強國), with active work across 4G/5G, industrial internet, smart manufacturing, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, connected vehicles, cybersecurity, and virtual and augmented reality. CAICT plays a key role in AI development and policy-making in China, and in February 2026 published the Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Research Report (人工智能產業發展研究報告). The academy has also provided institutional support for major state initiatives including Internet+, the “Broadband China” strategy, and the integration of “informatization” and industrialization.

Negocios Publicitarios Internacionales S.A.

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Negocios Publicitarios Internacionales S.A. (NEPISA) is a Nicaraguan joint-stock company that formally operates Canal 6 (第六頻道) on behalf of the Ortega government. Although Canal 6 is presented publicly as a state channel, a 2022 investigation by the independent outlet Confidencial found that NEPISA is controlled by two close associates of the presidential family: lawyer José María Enríquez Moncada and Eduardo Germán Morales Cuadra, both of whom appear across a broader network of companies linked to the Ortega-Murillo family. The Nicaraguan presidency has never publicly explained Canal 6’s relationship with NEPISA, though an executive decree has placed the channel under presidential responsibility since 2012. NEPISA is part of a wider pattern of ostensibly private companies used to manage state media assets within Nicaragua’s consolidated, family-controlled media system.

Government of Honduras

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The Republic of Honduras is a presidential representative democratic republic in which the president serves as both head of state and head of government, elected to a single four-year term by a simple majority. The unicameral National Congress (國家議會) holds 128 seats. Nasry Asfura of the conservative National Party was inaugurated on January 27, 2026, following a close election that was highly contested. A former mayor of Tegucigalpa with a background in the construction sector, Asfura signaled a rightward turn in foreign policy, pledging to restore diplomatic ties with Taiwan (Republic of China) and review the 16 agreements signed with China by his predecessor Xiomara Castro (希奧馬拉·卡斯特羅), who established relations with Beijing in March 2023, severing relations with Taiwan.

Canal 6

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Canal 6 (第六頻道) is a Nicaraguan state television channel based in Managua, and the flagship broadcaster of the Ortega government’s media apparatus. Founded in 1957 as a private channel owned by members of the Somoza family, it was nationalized following the 1979 Sandinista Revolution and integrated into the state-controlled Sistema Sandinista de Televisión. The channel subsequently went through a period of insolvency and was off the air for nearly a decade before being revived under President Daniel Ortega after his return to power in 2007. It is formally operated by Negocios Publicitarios Internacionales S.A. (NEPISA), a government-linked company. Canal 6 operates within a broader media landscape in which the Ortega-Murillo family controls the overwhelming majority of Nicaragua’s open-signal television channels.