Based in Osaka, Acacia Communications Co., Ltd (阿卡西亞通訊有限公司), or Akashia Komyunikēshonzu, is a Japanese media company founded on May 29, 2002, by Michiko Kurose (黑瀨道子), who serves as its representative director and publisher. The company specializes in publishing foreign-language media and providing translation services. The company is best known for publishing the Kansai Chinese Times (關西華文時報), a Chinese-language newspaper launched in August 2002 that serves the Chinese community in Japan’s southern prefectures.
Telefe is a Buenos Aires-based broadcast network founded in 1961 that is owned by the American media conglomerate Paramount Global. The channel produces Spanish-language programming, including telenovelas, news, and entertainment shows. Telefe also operates Telefe Internacional, a pay TV channel distributed to more than eight million subscribers in more than 20 countries. The network also offers streaming content through its digital platform, Mi Telefe.
Xinhua News Agency, established on November 7, 1931, as the Red China News Agency in Ruijin, Jiangxi province, is China’s official state news agency operating as a ministry-level institution under the State Council. The agency adopted its current name in January 1937 while headquartered in Yan’an, Shaanxi. Its headquarters is located near Zhongnanhai in Beijing, with the current president and Party Secretary Fu Hua (傅華), who was appointed in June 2022. By 2021, Xinhua had 181 bureaus globally, though more recent sources indicate over 170 overseas bureaus as of 2024, and publishes in multiple languages. Xinhua serves as the country’s leading news agency within the CCP’s news control system. Xinhua official news releases, or tonggao (通稿), are regarded as the authoritative version of events such as political meetings and CCP policy statements — authoritative in the sense that leadership approves them. In press orders and bans from the Central Propaganda Department, media will be instructed to “use only Xinhua releases” on particular stories. Today, Xinhua functions as an important channel for China’s leadership to disseminate its preferred narrative globally.
The Chongqing Daily News Group was established on October 18, 2001, as the official media arm of the Chongqing Municipal Communist Party Committee. Its flagship publication, Chongqing Daily (重慶日報), was founded on August 5, 1952, with then-party leader Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) personally calligraphing the masthead and providing an inscription during his tenure as Southwest Bureau Secretary. The group claims to have expanded from three newspapers before Chongqing’s designation as a centrally-administered municipality to a conglomerate encompassing 15 newspapers, 3 magazines, 15 websites, and over 20 commercial subsidiaries. While positioning itself as implementing “dual-wheel drive” combining “news undertakings and business operations,” the organization functions as a state propaganda apparatus under party directives rather than as an independent journalistic enterprise, reflecting the broader structure of Chinese state media where editorial control remains subordinate to political objectives.
The ASEAN-China Center (中國—東盟中心) is the sole intergovernmental organization between ASEAN and China, established in November 2011 during the 14th ASEAN-China Summit and headquartered in Beijing. Operating as a one-stop information and activities hub, the Center promotes cooperation in trade, investment, education, culture, and tourism through four operational divisions: General Affairs and Coordination, Trade and Investment, Education Culture and Tourism, and Information and Public Relations. Key functions include facilitating business partnerships, coordinating cultural and educational exchanges, conducting market research, supporting small and medium enterprises, managing a permanent exhibition hall, and providing comprehensive data banking services. The non-profit organization operates under a Memorandum of Understanding between ASEAN member states and China, governed by a Joint Council and Joint Executive Board, with capacity-building initiatives particularly focused on supporting less developed ASEAN countries including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
Khovar News Agency, officially known as the National Information Agency of Tajikistan, was established on December 31, 1925, during the period of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The agency functions as Tajikistan’s state news agency, publishing content in Tajik, Russian, English, Arabic, and Persian languages. On April 30, 2004, a governmental decree designated Khovar as the central state information body with official authorization to collect and distribute information about the president, Supreme Assembly, and government activities. The agency also operates Radio Khovar FM, which started broadcasting in 2011.
Uryadovy Kuryer, or “Government Courier,” is the official newspaper of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, published since October 1990. A state-owned enterprise publishing in Ukrainian five times weekly, it serves as the primary outlet for government decrees, laws, and presidential activities. Initially edited by Mykhailo Soroka and now by Sergii Braga (Сергій Брага), the paper is consistently ranked among Ukraine’s top three newspapers. As an official government publication, it publishes legally binding texts including Cabinet resolutions and parliamentary laws. The paper, according to the description on its website, is relied upon by international agencies like Reuters and Bloomberg.
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company based in Hangzhou that develops large language models. Founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng (梁文鋒), who also co-founded and leads the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer (幻方), the company gained prominence in January 2025 with the release of its DeepSeek-R1 model. The company made headlines for developing AI models comparable to industry leaders like OpenAI’s GPT-4o but at a fraction of the cost—claiming to have trained its V3 model for just $6 million compared to GPT-4’s estimated $100 million. This cost efficiency, achieved partly in response to US restrictions on Nvidia chip exports to China, sent “shockwaves” through global markets, contributing to a historic $600 billion drop in Nvidia’s market value. DeepSeek’s models are released under MIT License as “open weight” software, though this provides less freedom for modification than true open-source alternatives.
The Chinese and Cypriots Friendship Promotion Association (中塞友好促進會), or CCFPA, presents itself as a nongovernmental organization that fosters business collaboration and sister city activities between China and Cyprus. However, there are clear indications in identifying information for the association that it is operated by the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus as a front organization. An e-mail address given on the association’s website footer (hcyprus@163.com), was provided as the official submission address in May 2022 when the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus hosted a contest asking people to offer stories of China-Cyprus friendship, with no mention whatsoever of the association. The same e-mail address was again listed on the backdrop onstage at the 2025 China Cyprus Europe Media Forum, an event chiefly organized by the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China. Traced through the ICP license, Chinese business registration records also reveal that the association’s website (hcyprus.com) is operated by Youlu Wuhan Business Co., Ltd. (優路武漢商務有限公司), a commercial services company established in 2013 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The company’s legal representative is Shi Zhenglan (时正兰), about whom no information can be found, and its business scope includes immigration intermediary services, study abroad consulting, tourism services, and business agency operations. Hosted on the CCFPA website, a user agreement for the WeChat-based information platform “Cyprus Home” (塞岛家园) — whose handle is “hcyprus,” matching the e-mail address — indicates that “Cyprus Home” is operated by the company under the CCFPA. The agreement makes clear that the platform is an information service for Chinese in Cyprus that has stringent registration and security requirements, suggesting it might also serve as a surveillance tool used by the embassy. Further establishing the links between these various entities and platforms, the website for the CCFPA is also associated with the X account “HomeInCyprus Chinese” (@Cyprusxixi), which almost exclusively reshares content from the X account of China’s ambassador to Cyprus. An analysis of more than 200 posts from the account in November 2025 showed that nearly 30 percent were retweets of Ambassador Liu Yantao (刘彦涛), who accounted for almost 90 percent of all retweeted content. The association also has a Facebook account, with a separate e-mail address provided (info@cyprusandchina.org) that further connects the association with the Cyprus-China Cultural & Communication Association (中塞文化商务交流协会), or CCCA, which appears alongside the CCFPA, “Cyprus Home” and seven other ostensibly independent Chinese organizations on an August 2022 statement, posted to the Chinese Embassy in Cyprus website, opposing the visit of US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
