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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).

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia (馬來西亞外交部), also known as Wisma Putra (威士馬布特拉) after the complex in Putrajaya from which it operates, is the Malaysian government ministry responsible for the formulation, planning, and implementation of Malaysia’s foreign policy, and for managing bilateral, regional, and multilateral relations with foreign countries and international organizations. Its origins date to 1956, a year before Malaysian independence, when a pioneer batch of eleven career diplomats was sent to the United Kingdom and Australia for training. The ministry was initially established as the Ministry of External Affairs before being renamed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1966. It has operated from its current premises at No. 1, Jalan Wisma Putra, Precinct 2, Putrajaya since 17 September 2001. The ministry oversees a global network of over 110 diplomatic missions, including the Consulate General of Malaysia in Guangzhou.

BXL Connect

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BXL Connect is a Belgian private limited liability company founded in March 2013. It manages The Brussels Times, an English-language Belgian newspaper.

Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union

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The Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union is China’s principal diplomatic representation to EU institutions. Diplomatic ties were established on May 6, 1975, when European Economic Community Vice-President Christopher Soames and Premier Zhou Enlai (周恩來) agreed to normalize relations; China’s first ambassador to the European Communities presented credentials that September. The mission operates a press office and regularly publishes op-eds and statements in European media. Relations have grown increasingly strained since the European Commission in 2019 formally described China as simultaneously a partner, an economic competitor, and a systemic rival, a characterization the mission has consistently rejected.

Jishi Media

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Jishi Media (吉視傳媒) is a Chinese state-controlled cable television operator founded in May 2001 and headquartered in Changchun, the capital of China’s northeast Jilin province. The state-run Jilin Radio and TV Station (吉林廣播電視台) is its largest shareholder and controlling entity, holding a direct 28.18 percent stake according to registration records as of May 2026 — and being the ultimate shareholder of a majority of the other minor shareholders in the entity. The company manages and maintains the province’s cable television infrastructure, serving 5.19 million subscribers with cable TV, broadband internet, and digital television services, including on-demand and interactive content. It operates 60 subsidiaries and branch offices across Jilin province, Beijing, and Hainan, employs more than 7,000 people, and has built a fiber-optic network spanning 61,000 kilometers across the province. In February 2012, Jishi Media listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the ticker 601929.

Jilin Provincial People’s Government

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The Jilin Provincial People’s Government is the state administrative and executive organ of Jilin Province in northeastern China, headquartered in Changchun. Established in 1949 alongside the founding of the People’s Republic of China, it formally reports to the State Council in Beijing and to the Jilin Provincial People’s Congress, though in practice authority rests with the Jilin Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Naftemporiki

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Naftemporiki (Η Ναυτεμπορική)  is a daily financial newspaper founded in Greece on March 8, 1924, by pioneering Greek journalists Panos and Giorgos Athanasiadis. The paper covers the Greek economy, capital markets, corporate news, shipping, ports, and energy policy. The paper also convenes the Naftemporiki Economic Conference and the Diamonds of the Greek Economy business awards, the latter being an annual event for top-performing Greek brands that generally gathers together Greek ministers and corporate executives. The paper reposts content in Greek from The Economist and other Western media, including coverage of China.