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.