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Chinese Embassy in Denmark

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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Denmark is China’s chief diplomatic mission to the Kingdom of Denmark, located in Copenhagen. China and Denmark established diplomatic relations on January 9, 1950, making Denmark the second country to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China following its establishment on October 1, 1949. China is Denmark’s largest Asian trading partner, with around 500 Danish companies operating business in China. In late 2025, the embassy exerted its diplomatic power to pressure the Danish newspaper Berlingske after reporting that the Chinese military modernization may be a way to reunify Taiwan during the 80th anniversary military parade.

Zhejiang Media Group

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Zhejiang Media Group (浙江廣播電視集團) was founded on November 8, 2001, through the merger of Zhejiang Radio Station and Zhejiang Television. The group is directly under the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and provincial government.  The group operates 18 broadcast channels, including Zhejiang Satellite TV (浙江衛視) and Zhejiang Voice (浙江之聲), alongside new-media platforms China Blue News (中國藍新聞) and Z-Vision (Z視介). The group claims, without explanation, that it ranks “in the front nationwide” (位居全國前列) and notes in an online introduction that it has averaged “one Zhejiang story per day” on CCTV’s news program Xinwen Lianbo (新聞聯播).

Beteve

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Betevé (formerly Barcelona Televisió) is Barcelona’s municipal public broadcaster, launched on November 3, 1994 by merging ten district television stations. Its day-to-day management is handled by the Barcelona City Council, which acts as its shareholders’ assembly. The broadcaster produces its own programming, from newscasts to documentaries, debate shows, and entertainment. It broadcasts primarily in Catalan, a policy in place since the channel’s founding.

Barcelona City Council

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Barcelona City Council (Ajuntament de Barcelona) is the local government that administers the city and oversees urban planning, mobility, housing, and public services. The council is led by a mayor, supported by deputy mayors and councilors who form the Government Commission, the body that runs day-to-day decisions.

Xinhua News Agency Signs Agreement With Televisao de Mocambique

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On April 21, 2026, China’s state agency, Xinhua, signed a news exchange and cooperation agreement with Televisão de Moçambique (TVM), Mozambique’s government-funded national public broadcaster, during Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo’s state visit to Beijing. According to Xinhua, the agreement covers the exchange of news content and personnel visits between the two outlets. The agreement was included on the official outcomes list of President Chapo’s state visit to Beijing.

Chinese Ambassador to Estonia Gives Interview to The Baltic Times

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In November 2025, Guo Xiaomei (郭曉梅), China’s ambassador to Estonia, gave an interview to the Baltic Times on China-EU relations, trade, and Taiwan. Guo pushed back against the European Commission’s de-risking strategy, a policy articulated in 2023 aimed at reducing the EU’s critical dependencies on China, claiming that halting cooperation would endanger the relationship. “In our view, failure to cooperate is the greatest risk, and failure to develop is the greatest insecurity,” she wrote. These remarks echoed the CCP’s vision of rights and development globally, holding that development — largely meaning economic growth — should be prioritized over human rights and democracy. On the question of Taiwan, she warned that opening any representative office in Tallinn would breach the Joint Communiqué signed on September 11, 1991, establishing China-Estonia ties. Estonia’s government had decided in November 2023 to allow a non-diplomatic Taipei office, though as of late 2025, the office had not yet opened.

Xinhua Signs Agreement With Gabinete de Informacao

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On April 21, 2026, Xinhua News Agency, China’s state news agency, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mozambique’s Gabinete de Informação (莫桑比克國家新聞辦公室), whose functions include government information release and coordination between government departments and media. The signing took place during Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo’s state visit to China and was listed on the official outcomes of the visit. According to Xinhua, the MOU aimed to strengthen news communication cooperation and jointly develop a high-level forum mechanism for media think tanks from Global South countries, with the stated goal of improving what Xinhua described as “the effectiveness of information dissemination across the Global South” — framing that positions Xinhua as a central node in shaping information flows through partner state institutions across the region.

Gabinete de Informacao

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The Gabinete de Informação (莫桑比克國家新聞辦公室), or GABINFO, is a central state institution subordinate to the Prime Minister of Mozambique, with legal personality and administrative autonomy. According to GABINFO, its functions include advising the government on information matters, facilitating coordination between the government and media, and promoting public dissemination of official government activities domestically and internationally.

Televisao de Mocambique

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Televisão de Moçambique (Television of Mozambique), or TVM, is Mozambique’s state-funded public television broadcaster, launched in 1981. TVM is owned and funded by the Mozambican government, which directly appoints its leadership and covers over 75 percent of the television budget through state subsidies. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, covering news, children’s programming, entertainment, cultural content, soap operas, and drama series.