The Baltic Times is an English-language newspaper covering political, economic, business, and cultural affairs across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Founded in 1996 through the merger of two newspapers, The Baltic Independent and The Baltic Observer, it is headquartered in Riga, Latvia. The paper publishes news analysis and commentary on politics, business, diplomacy, culture, tourism, and regional affairs, with a focus on covering events across all three Baltic states. It also produces a seasonal magazine featuring interviews and in-depth reporting on pan-Baltic topics. The outlet also has a presence online, with a website and through social media, on Facebok, X and Youtube.
A delegation from the government of the Republic of Buryatia (布里亞特共和國), a federal republic of Russia located in Eastern Siberia, renowned as a spiritual center of Buddhism in Russia, visited China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region from April 27-30, 2026, for talks on news and media cooperation. The trip was led by Ivan Sergeevich Loginov, chairman of the Information Policy Committee of the Administration of the Head of the Republic of Buryatia. According to a report from Inner Mongolia Daily (內蒙古日報), the delegation toured the Inner Mongolia Art Theatre, the Inner Mongolia Museum, and the offices of Inner Mongolia Daily and Inner Mongolia Radio and Television, including the latter’s international communication and “media convergence” (融媒體) centers, an effort to combine party media outlets into single, multi-platform operations under centralized editorial control. The delegation also attended a sister-city event between Hohhot and the Buryat capital, Ulan-Ude. On April 29, the visitors held a working session with regional press and culture officials to discuss cooperation on news websites, broadcast content sharing, and translated programming. “Media exchange is an important entry point for deepening friendly cooperation between the two countries,” Loginov was quoted as saying. He called for joint projects and regular journalist exchanges to “increase mutual understanding” between the two countries — language consistent with standard Chinese Communist Party framing of bilateral cultural exchange as relationship-building rather than as a vehicle for shaping foreign perceptions of China.
Inner Mongolia Daily (內蒙古日報) is the official party newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Committee, published in separate Chinese and Mongolian-language editions. According to the newspaper’s own 2025 social responsibility report, the paper was first published on January 1, 1948, and describes itself as the earliest provincial-level party newspaper founded in one of China’s ethnic minority regions. The same report states the paper operates under the direct leadership of the regional party propaganda office and organizes its content around the promotion of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s political theory and the concept of “forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation” (鑄牢中華民族共同體意識). The paper operates a multi-platform outreach effort branded “Solonga” (索倫嘎) aimed at audiences in Mongolia and Russia, and led the launch of the Inner Mongolia International Communication Center in 2026, a state propaganda initiative named as a priority in the regional party committee’s 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Inner Mongolia International Communication Center (內蒙古國際傳播中心) is a planned state media institution intended to centralize the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region’s foreign-language and overseas propaganda output. Its construction was written into the region’s 15th Five-Year Plan, published by the regional Chinese Communist Party committee, which called for strengthening “international communication” and “telling China’s story well” (講好中國故事), a term denoting domestic and international message control around positive portrayals of China and its policies and actions, archived source. As of February 2026, the center’s formation was reportedly underway, according to an article by the party secretary and president of Inner Mongolia Daily (內蒙古日報) published in the state-affiliated journal China Journalist (中國記者). The article described the center as building on Inner Mongolia Daily‘s existing “Solonga” (索倫嘎) brand, a set of multilingual print, web, and social media platforms launched in 1993 that the newspaper claims publishes in Cyrillic Mongolian, Russian, and English and maintains accounts on Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram. Inner Mongolia Daily reported its own circulation, web traffic, and social media follower figures for these platforms, which Lingua Sinica was unable to independently verify. The newspaper stated it was approved as part of China’s “second batch of national key international communication bases” in 2025, though the precise nature or authority behind this designation could not be independently confirmed from the source.
The Propaganda Office of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Chinese Communist Party Committee (中共內蒙古自治區委員會宣傳部) is the regional party body responsible for ideological work, media oversight, and propaganda in Inner Mongolia. According to the regional party committee’s organizational structure, the office also operates under several additional formal designations, including the regional government’s news office, press and publication bureau, and film bureau, consolidating both party ideological functions and nominally separate state media regulatory functions under one body. The office holds authority over the leadership of Inner Mongolia Daily (內蒙古日報), among other regional party and state media outlets. The Propaganda Office oversees the Inner Mongolia International Communication Center (內蒙古國際傳播中心), which Inner Mongolia Daily organized the launch of in 2026.
The Republic of Buryatia (布里亞特共和國) is a federal republic of Russia located in southeastern Siberia, bordering Mongolia to the south and containing roughly 60 percent of the shoreline of Lake Baikal. Founded in 1923 as a Soviet-era autonomous republic, it has been administered as part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District since 2018. Its capital, Ulan-Ude, lies along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Buryatia is home to Russia’s largest population of ethnic Buryats, a Mongolic people, and is widely described as a center of Tibetan Buddhist practice in Russia, alongside Russian Orthodox and shamanist traditions. China’s government has long signaled interest in Buryatia as a regional partner. In 2012, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping (程國平) met with then-Buryat president Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, with both sides describing the neighboring regions as having “vast potential” for cooperation. According to a Jamestown Foundation analysis, Buryat soldiers suffered disproportionately heavy losses fighting in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The same report stated that heavy battlefield losses, police violence, and corrupt local governance had together fueled mass protests and a new wave of Buryat political organizing. It separately described Buryatia as economically dependent on subsidies from Moscow, following Soviet-era industrial collapse and the closure of locally owned businesses.
The 2025 China-South Korea Media Cooperation Forum was held in Seoul on October 13, 2025, under the theme “China-South Korea Cooperation for an Intelligent Future.” It brought together representatives from Chinese and South Korean media outlets, academic institutions, and tech companies. Co-hosted by the People’s Daily (人民日報), the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, and South Korea’s Maekyung Media Group, the event featured speeches by the president of the People’s Daily, the chairman of Maekyung Media Group, and China’s ambassador to South Korea. According to a readout from the People’s Daily, the forum released the results of a public opinion survey in the Asia-Pacific region claiming that populations generally view the region as “an interdependent community with common interests and a shared future” — language directly echoing Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy concept of a “community of common destiny for mankind” (人類命運共同體). Xi’s policy phrase, which now underpins what the CCP characterizes as the “Four Great Global Initiatives” (四大全球倡议) — the Global Development Initiative (GDI), Global Security Initiative (GSI), Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), and the Global Governance Initiative (GGI) — prioritizes state-centered approaches to international relations while subordinating individual rights to national interests. The president of the People’s Daily called on media organizations to promote “Asian values of peace, cooperation, openness, and inclusiveness” and to “consolidate common regional values,” framing media cooperation as a vehicle for advancing China’s narratives in the region.
On April 25, 2017, Wang Dongmei (王冬梅), secretary of the All-China Journalists Association (中國記協), met with 42 journalists from 39 countries across Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia in Beijing. Wang emphasized China’s growing economic and media ties with these regions, claiming the journalists’ association follows principles of “openness, cooperation, and mutual benefit” (開放、合作、共贏) while promoting Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (一帶一路). The foreign journalists were invited by the China-Africa Press Exchange Center (中非新聞交流中心) and China-South Asia Southeast Asia Exchange Center (中國-南亞東南亞交流中心), which were established in 2014 and 2016 respectively under China’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation framework. These centers arrange 10-month programs for international journalists featuring themed reporting and cultural experiences, with the China-Africa Press Exchange Center placing “African journalists in Chinese media outlets on 10-month assignments where they work in Chinese newsrooms and report on high-level CCP activities.”
In August 2024, the “HI CHINA – Discovering China Opportunities – Celebrating 50 Years of China-Malaysia Relationship” event was held at Sunway Velocity in Kuala Lumpur, commemorating five decades of diplomatic ties between China and Malaysia. Organized by China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) and supported by China Enterprises Chamber of Commerce in Malaysia (CECCM), the cultural exchange celebration featured speeches by Manoharan Periasamy, Director-General of Tourism Malaysia, and Shi Le (施乐), Director of the Sinhala Department of CMG’s Asian and African Languages Programming Centre. CECCM President Ni Qingjiu (倪庆久) participated as a distinguished guest in the opening ceremony. The event included booths showcasing Chinese cultural exchanges, which organizers said “deepened cultural interactions with the Malaysia public” and highlighted collaborative spirit between the two nations whose diplomatic relations were established on May 31, 1974.
