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Nuevas Ideas

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Nuevas Ideas (新理念黨) is the dominant ruling political party of El Salvador, founded on October 25, 2017, by President Nayib Bukele. The party was officially registered on August 21, 2018, as a big tent movement established to dismantle the long-standing legislative duopoly of the right-wing ARENA and the left-wing FMLN. Under the leadership of party president Xavier Zablah Bukele, the organization has emerged as a force that has “changed the map of political pluralism in El Salvador.” , securing supermajorities in the Legislative Assembly during both the 2021 and 2024 elections. Its platform, centered on the persona of President Bukele, focuses on security and infrastructure while rejecting traditional ideological labels.

Perforadora Santa Bárbara S.A. de C.V.

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Perforadora Santa Bárbara S.A. de C.V. (聖巴巴拉鑽井公司), renamed Inversiones Santa Bárbara (ISB) in September 2021, is a Salvadoran state-owned subsidiary primarily engaged in the geothermal energy sector. It is a direct subsidiary of LaGeo, which is in turn owned by the state electricity commission, Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (CEL). Although its official business focus involves the sale of machinery and spare parts for geothermal well drilling, the company serves as the 99 percent majority shareholder of El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V., the corporate entity behind the pro-government newspaper Diario El Salvador. Investigations published by El Salvador Now have revealed that the company acted as a financial intermediary, receiving multi-million dollar loans from LaGeo to fund the newspaper’s launch and operations. This corporate structure has been described by legal analysts as a “flight from administrative law,” allowing the government to manage public funds through private corporate shells to avoid the transparency requirements typically applied to state institutions.

Canal 10

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Founded on November 4, 1964 as an educational television initiative under the Ministry of Education, Canal 10 (第十頻道) is El Salvador’s only state-owned television channel. Following President Nayib Bukele’s assumption of office in 2019, the station was placed under the Secretariat of Communications of the Presidency, shifting its primary function from educational content to serving as the government’s main television platform. Operating within the Sistema Nacional de Medios Públicos (SINAMP), it produces “Noticias de El Salvador,” its flagship news program launched in September 2020. Canal 10 pioneered El Salvador’s transition to digital broadcasting on December 21, 2018, and currently maintains national reach via digital terrestrial television.

El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V.

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El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V. (國家日報股份有限公司) is a Salvadoran commercial corporation established on March 3, 2020, to serve as the legal and administrative vehicle for the state-run newspaper, Diario El Salvador. The company was incorporated by subsidiaries of the Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (CEL), specifically Perforadora Santa Bárbara (99 percent shareholder) and the Compañía de Luz Eléctrica de Ahuachapán (1 percent shareholder). By utilizing a private corporate structure under the umbrella of state-owned energy entities, the firm operates with the commercial flexibility of a private business while being sustained by public resources and government advertising contracts. It is headquartered within the CEL facilities in San Salvador and serves as the primary entity for formalizing international media partnerships, including content-sharing frameworks with the PRC’s Xinhua News Agency.

Global South Institute

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Founded on September 29, 2024, the Tianjin University Global South Institute (天津大學全球南方研究院) is China’s first university-based research center dedicated to Global South studies. Housed within the School of Foreign Languages and led by Executive Director Professor Wang Zhan (王戰), the institute operates as a state-oriented think tank explicitly tasked with serving Chinese national strategy and advancing Beijing’s vision of a “community with a shared future for mankind.” It maintains four research centers focused on Francophone countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, East Asia, and the United States and India, and runs a multilingual public opinion monitoring and AI translation platform tracking political and social developments across Global South nations.

Canal N

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Canal N is a Peruvian pay-television news channel founded on July 4, 1999, and headquartered in Lima, as part of the El Comercio media group. It was Peru’s first 24-hour cable news channel, with programming focused on current affairs and political coverage. The channel was created under journalist Gilberto Hume and was instrumental in the fall of President Alberto Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000 and was later convicted of human rights abuses and corruption. In 2021, the channel drew criticism after journalists were forced out for refusing to produce coverage favorable to Keiko Fujimori’s presidential campaign.

Mission of the People’s Republic of China to ASEAN

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The Mission of the People’s Republic of China to ASEAN is Beijing’s dedicated diplomatic representation to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (東南亞國家聯盟), headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dialogue relations began in 1991, when Foreign Minister Qian Qichen (錢其琛) attended the 24th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. In 2003, China acceded to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, establishing a strategic partnership. It was the first dialogue partner to do so. China established its permanent mission at ASEAN in 2008. In 2021, Xi Jinping announced the upgrade to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (全面戰略夥伴關係), the highest tier in China’s diplomatic relationship framework.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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Founded on August 8, 1967 in Bangkok with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration by the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, ASEAN is an eleven-member intergovernmental organization headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. Its founding was driven by Cold War-era concerns about communist expansion in Southeast Asia, though the declaration itself focused on accelerating regional economic, social, and cultural development. Membership expanded gradually — Brunei in 1984, Vietnam in 1995, Laos and Myanmar in 1997, and Cambodia in 1999. Timor-Leste joined as the eleventh member in October 2025. The ASEAN Charter, adopted in 2007 and entering into force in 2008, gave the bloc formal legal status. The organization operates across three community pillars — political-security, economic, and socio-cultural — and remains the central multilateral forum for Southeast Asian regional cooperation.

Tianjin University

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Founded in 1895 as Peiyang University (北洋大學) by statesman Sheng Xuanhuai under a Qing imperial charter, Tianjin University is the oldest institution of higher education in modern Chinese history. Renamed Tianjin University in 1951 following the nationwide restructuring of colleges under the People’s Republic, it was designated one of China’s first sixteen national key universities in 1959 and is now a Ministry of Education-administered institution under the country’s Double First-Class construction program for world-class universities. Today it collaborates with more than 260 institutions across 50 countries and encompasses schools spanning engineering, science, law, humanities, and medicine, with particular strength in chemical engineering, materials science, and precision instrumentation.