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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.

Ouhua Media Group

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Ouhua Media Group (歐華傳媒集團), known formally in Spanish as Ouhua New Media Communication Group S.L. — S.L. being the Spanish designation for a limited liability company — is a Madrid-based Chinese-language multimedia company founded on December 8, 2002. Its flagship publication is Ouhua Bao (歐華報), a Chinese-language newspaper with bureaus in Barcelona and Valencia and a representative office in mainland China. The group also operatesEl Mandarin (東方週刊), a Spanish-language media project launched in 2005 and converted to a website in 2012, as well as the news portal ouhua.info. The Ouhua website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number (滬ICP備09078614號), suggesting it is registered as a Chinese domestic entity. The group identifies itself as an overseas cooperation partner of China News Service (中國新聞社) and Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), both Chinese state media outlets, and maintains partnerships with CCTV-4 and Phoenix Satellite Television’s European channel, as well as with several Chinese provincial government web portals including Enorth.com.cn (北方網), southcn.com (南方網), Red Net (紅網), Tibet News Network (西藏新聞網), and Tianshan Net (天山網). Tianshan Net is operated by the Xinjiang New Media Center (新疆新媒體中心), a state entity under the Xinjiang Daily and Xinjiang Newspaper Media Group (新疆報業傳媒集團). According to the group’s own account, Spanish firm Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團) took a controlling stake in the group in late 2025. Tao Xinyi (陶辛夷), who built the group over approximately 28 years, holds the title of permanent honorary president (永久名譽社長).

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.

Euro Chinese Daily

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Euro Chinese Daily (歐洲僑報), known in Romanian as Ziarul Chinezii in Lume, is a Chinese-language biweekly newspaper founded in June 2000 and based in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. Published in Chinese, English, and Romanian, the paper focuses on European economic and cultural news, with a particular emphasis on Romania, and claims to be the only Chinese-language newspaper held in Romania’s National Library. It distributes approximately 20,000 copies across Romania and some 20 surrounding European countries. A 2022 Freedom House report on Chinese media influence in Romania identified the paper as a member of the Global Chinese Media Cooperation Forum, a body overseen by China News Service (中國新聞社), a Chinese state media outlet — a connection the outlet’s own “About Us” page confirms. The paper was also among overseas Chinese media represented at the 2019 World Chinese Media Forum, jointly organized by the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and China News Service. According to its own account, the paper has covered multiple Chinese Communist Party congresses and has accompanied Chinese government delegations on official visits. The website bears an ICP registration, suggesting it is run by a China-based entity. The outlet’s own account describes repeated co-productions with China Central Television (中央廣播電視總台), consecutive invitations to cover China’s annual parliamentary sessions, and commendation from the Chinese Embassy in Romania — patterns typical of Beijing-aligned overseas Chinese media rather than independent outlets. Its 2019 World Chinese Media Forum submission, titled “The Importance and Communication Strategy of Telling China’s Story Well,” won a third-place prize, suggesting editorial alignment with core CCP propaganda directives. The outlet has active accounts on Instagram, X, and Facebook, and an ISSN registration (1582-1978) that confirms it is published in Romania as “Chinezii în lume.”

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.