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Chinese Embassy in Tanzania

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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Tanzania is China’s chief diplomatic mission to the United Republic of Tanzania, located in Dar es Salaam. The mission’s origins trace to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and Tanzania on April 26, 1964, when the newly formed United Republic of Tanzania (created from the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar) extended diplomatic ties with Beijing, making Tanzania among the earliest African nations to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China during the Cold War era. The embassy is currently located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with China also maintaining a consulate-general in Zanzibar.

Minsk News Agency

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The Minsk News Agency (明斯克新聞社), or Minsk-Novosti, is a Belarusian media organization headquartered in Minsk, claiming to provide news and information services. Online archives suggest the agency has operated since around February 2009. Key personnel include Andrei Krivosheev, who serves as general director and describes himself as a political and social observer, author and presenter of television projects for Belarusian State TV and Radio Company. The organization positions itself as a news agency operating within Belarus’s media landscape and has engaged in international partnerships, including cooperation agreements with Chinese provincial media organizations such as Gansu Province’s communication center. Krivosheev has been identified by Polish security services as actively supporting the Lukashenko regime and is included on international sanctions lists, with Polish authorities citing his activities as posing security risks due to his support for the current Belarusian government amid regional conflicts. The agency operates within the broader framework of Belarus’s state-controlled media environment, where independent journalism faces significant restrictions.

Propaganda Office of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the CCP

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The Propaganda Office of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共甘肅省委宣傳部) serves as the chief office responsible for communicating the agendas of the provincial party leadership and overseeing state-run media in Gansu Province, including the mouthpiece newspaper Gansu Daily (甘肅日報). It coordinates party ideological work throughout the province while simultaneously operating under multiple official names, allowing it to exercise comprehensive control over news, publishing, and cultural production. The department functions as the central enforcer of the party’s media discipline, ensuring all local outlets maintain proper political orientation in line with central and provincial level directives. 

Gansu International Communication Center

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The Gansu International Communication Center (甘肅國際傳播中心) is a media organization established on August 29, 2022, directly under the supervision of the Propaganda Office of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the CCP (中共甘肅省委宣傳部) — and sponsored by the Gansu Daily Media Group (甘肅日報報業集團). The ICC is part of a national strategy under Xi Jinping since 2018, accelerating from 2021, to enhance China’s global communication strategy by leveraging local and regional media assets. GICC’s overseas media accounts include the Facebook accounts “Gansu Flavor,” “Gansu Focus” and possibly also “HiGansu,” as well as the X account “Explore Gansu.”

Belarus-Gansu Media Platform Launch Builds on ICC Office Formation

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On May 20-25, 2025, in Gansu Province (甘肅省), Andrei Krivosheyev, chairman of the Belarusian Union of Journalists (白俄羅斯記者聯盟) and chairman of the Board of Directors of Minsk News Agency (明斯克新聞社), led a Belarusian media delegation visiting to examine Gansu’s economic and social development and inspect projects in culture, new energy, environmental protection, international logistics, and water-saving agriculture. Building on cooperation established in 2023 when the province’s Gansu International Communication Center (甘肅省國際傳播中心), or GICC, opened an office in the Belarus Journalists Union, the delegation met with Gansu Daily (甘肅日報) newspaper representatives and launched a new media platform for “information exchange,” with attendees including China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (中華人民共和國外交部) representatives, local government officials, and All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會) Vice President Li Xiaojun (李曉軍). The organizations claimed the visit would “comprehensively promote and report on new achievements of Chinese-style modernization practice in Gansu” and explore cooperation to jointly tell “Silk Road stories” and “China-Belarus friendship stories” (中白友好故事) within “all-weather and all-round Belarus-China strategic partnership” frameworks. 

SCO Media Summit Establishes Cooperation Framework

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On July 23-27, 2024, in Zhengzhou, China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) hosted a media and think tank summit featuring Dmitry Zhuk, director of Belarus’s “Belarus Today” publishing house, alongside Chinese officials and regional media representatives. The summit produced the “Zhengzhou Consensus” (郑州共识), with participants claiming the gathering would “explore optimal solutions to external challenges” and establish “more effective international information cooperation paradigms” (更加有效的国际信息合作新范式). Zhuk praised the summit’s “fruitful results” and emphasized combating disinformation while promoting “mutual respect principles” and “civilizational diversity” (文明多样性). The initiative positions itself as implementing “Shanghai Spirit” (上海精神) values in media cooperation, though the emphasis on geopolitics and strategic information coordination suggests soft power objectives rather than independent media and think tank collaboration.

Chinese Ambassador Marks China-EU Anniversary in Czech Media

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On July 21, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Feng Biao (冯飚) published an op-ed in Czech publication Parlamentní Listy (议会报) titled “Fifty Years of China-Europe Diplomatic Relations: Fruitful Results, Bright Prospects,” commemorating the 50th anniversary of China-EU diplomatic relations. The ambassador promoted expanding bilateral trade relationships, claiming annual trade volumes grew “from 2.4 billion dollars to over 780 billion dollars” and positioning mutual investment stock at “nearly 260 billion dollars.” Feng defended China’s market access policies and dismissed concerns about trade imbalances, stating “the surplus is on China’s side, the profits are on Europe’s side.” The article employed standard PRC diplomatic terminology about “comprehensive strategic partnership” (全面战略伙伴关系) and called for “dialogue and cooperation” (对话合作) while promoting the upcoming 25th China-EU Leaders’ Meeting in Beijing.

Chinese Ambassador Promotes Economy in Czech Media

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On December 20, 2023, Chinese Ambassador to the Czech Republic Feng Biao (冯飚) conducted a written interview with Czech media outlet Naše Pravda (我们的真相), addressing China’s economic development achievements and foreign policy positions. The ambassador touted China’s claimed “5.2 percent GDP growth during the first three quarters” of 2023 as evidence of long-term growth momentum. Feng described China as “standing on the correct side of history” and promoted China-Czech cooperation opportunities, calling for expanded trade and tourism collaboration while criticizing “some Czech politicians” for engaging with Taiwan. The interview employed standard PRC diplomatic terminology about “mutual benefit and win-win cooperation” (互利共赢) and “constructing a community with shared future for mankind” (构建人类命运共同体).

Nase Pravda

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Naše Pravda (我们的真相) is a weekly publication that replaced the left-wing daily newspaper Haló Noviny, which operated from 1991 to 2022. According to available information, the publication positions itself as a party weekly that presents primarily the views of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (捷克和摩拉维亚共产党), or KSČM), and organizations and individuals close to the party. The weekly claims to serve as a successor publication continuing coverage for readers previously served by Haló Noviny. The publication operates as what it describes as a purely party weekly focusing on presenting political perspectives aligned with the KSČM and associated organizations.