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London Tech Week Partners with Nouvelles d’Europe

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In August 2025, London Tech Week announced a partnership with Nouvelles d’Europe (歐洲時報), designating the Chinese-language newspaper, which is linked to China’s United Front Work Department, as the sole Chinese-language media partner for its 2026 edition. According to Nouvelles d’Europe, the arrangement aims to facilitate exchanges between Chinese enterprises, entrepreneurs, and investors with UK and global markets, and will provide bilingual Chinese-English content alongside dedicated national exhibition spaces for Chinese enterprises at the event. The 2026 edition is also set to launch what the outlet describes as an “Asia-Europe Innovation Corridor” centered on China, to promote cooperation among enterprises, investors, and policymakers.

MailOnline and People’s Daily Sign Content-Sharing Agreement

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In April 2016, the British online newspaper MailOnline entered into a content-sharing arrangement with the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. Under the deal, the two outlets agreed to exchange approximately 40 articles per week, covering current affairs, travel, and lifestyle, as well as content from both the Chinese and English editions of the Global Times (環球時報), a tabloid newspaper under the People’s Daily. Articles published under the agreement carried a disclosure banner identifying their origin. MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke, confirming the arrangement to The Guardian, said “there is no cash involved” and made the odd suggestion that the Party-run mouthpiece, which is generally full of highly specialized Chinese political discourse, would help the outlet “better understand the country’s social and political structures.” 

London Tech Week

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London Tech Week is an annual technology festival co-founded in 2014 by Founders Forum LLP, in partnership with Informa Festivals. Held each June in London, the festival brings together entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, and innovators from across the world for conferences, showcases, workshops, and networking events spanning the full technology ecosystem. The London Tech Week brand is owned by Informa Ltd. Its annual programme addresses emerging themes across the technology sector, including applied AI, enterprise resilience, deeptech, and quantum computing.

Rothermere Continuation Holdings Ltd

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Rothermere Continuation Holdings Ltd (RCHL) is a holding company established in October 2025. RCHL oversees a portfolio of major British newspapers and media titles, including the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, and Metro. The offshore company, based in Bermuda, is controlled by Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere — a royal appointment below an earl and above a baron.

MailOnline

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MailOnline is the digital news platform of the Daily Mail, a British tabloid founded in 1896. Launched in 2003, it functions as a high-volume, continuous news website covering breaking news, politics, entertainment, celebrity, and lifestyle content. Though managed separately from the print edition, it shares content with the Daily Mail and its sister paper, Mail on Sunday.  

Informa

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Informa is a multinational information services corporation founded in December 1998 and headquartered in London. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it operates across academic publishing, specialist markets, and global events. Its subsidiaries include academic publishing companies such as Routledge and Taylor & Francis Group. 

Daily Mail

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The Daily Mail is a British daily newspaper founded in 1896, headquartered in London and owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT). Currently the second largest newspaper in the United Kingdom by circulation — behind only The Sun — it covers politics, economics, entertainment, lifestyle, royals, health, sport, and personal finance

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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Founded on November 1, 1949, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is one of Germany’s most influential daily newspapers. The newspaper states on its website that its values are independence, thoroughly researched facts, precise analyses, and insightful commentary. The publication reaches an estimated 818,000 readers daily. The FAZ, as the outlet can be called, has also established a strong digital presence through FAZ.NET, numerous apps, and podcasts. The outlet generally rates strongly for its professionalism, receiving a “High” rating for factual reporting from the independent site Media Bias/Fact Check. But nor has it been free of controversy. In 2014, former FAZ journalist Udo Ulfkotte, who worked at the paper from 1986 to 2003, published a book questioning the paper’s independence and claiming he and other journalists published material provided by US intelligence agencies; however, another German daily, Der Spiegel reported that critics viewed Ulfkotte’s book as “a vendetta against the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which he left on bad terms,” and noted it was published by a publisher known for conspiracy theory content. 

Chinese Vocational Workshop Launched in Ethiopia

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On February 5, 2026, Hunan Biological and Electromechanical Polytechnic College (湖南生物機電職業技術學院) signed a cooperation agreement with Gofa Industrial College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, establishing a “‘Chinese + Vocational Skills’ Yadis Workshop,” according to an announcement on the Chinese institution’s website. The partnership was explicitly framed as “actively responding to the Belt and Road Initiative” and advancing China’s vocational education model abroad. The Chinese representative emphasized “sharing China’s advanced experience” in agricultural technology and vocational methods. The agreement includes teacher exchanges and curriculum development aligned with Chinese technical standards, positioning such partnerships as development solutions for African countries and reflecting broader Chinese public diplomacy efforts to promote its development model in the region.