
Beware the Tigers
As China’s provincial propaganda apparatus reaches into Europe through cultural diplomacy, even storied universities can find themselves unwitting partners in the enterprise.

The Ayuntamiento de Gálvez (加爾維斯市政府) is the municipal government of Gálvez, a town in Spain’s Toledo province in the Castile-La Mancha region. As of October 2026, the council was led by Manuel Guillermo Fernández Lázaro-Carrasco of the conservative People’s Party (人民黨). He won reelection in May 2023 after 28 years as mayor. On October 6, 2026, Fernández took part in a roundtable on local cooperation with China in Madrid. The roundtable was part of an event to promote the Spanish edition of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, Volume V (習近平談治國理政第五卷西文版), guided by China International Communications Group (中國外文局), an institution managed by the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department.
