The Kenya Editors’ Guild (KEG) is a professional association founded in 1998 that brings together senior print, broadcast, and online editors, as well as journalism scholars, across Kenya. According to its official website, KEG aims to promote and uphold media independence, monitor legislation affecting news media, and submit representations to Parliament, county assemblies, and government institutions. In August 2025, then-CEO Rosalia Omungo participated in a half-day AI journalism workshop in Nairobi organized by Xinhua News Agency’s Africa Regional Bureau. At the event, Omungo echoed Xinhua’s framing and quoted as saying that China “provides a template through which African newsrooms can learn from and accelerate the adoption of AI.”
The Greece-China Association (Σύνδεσμος Ελλάδας-Κίνας), founded in 1956 and based in Athens, presents itself as a non-profit that promotes friendly, cultural, and economic relations between Greece and China. It was originally established as the “Union of Friends of New China” (Ένωσις Φίλων της Νέας Κίνας) by Nicolas Kitskis, then dean of the National Technical University of Athens and a member of parliament, and his wife Beata Kitskis, following a visit to China in September 1956. Its activities include Chinese-language classes, HSK examination administration, Chinese New Year celebrations, and organized tours to China for Greek students. The association designates the Chinese ambassador to Greece as an honorary chair and has ties with the Chinese Embassy in Athens. Its annual Chinese New Year dinner is held “under the auspices of the Embassy of China in Greece.” In 2013, theChinese Ambassador to Greece personally opened the dinner. In May 2025, the association co-supported the Athens Cooperation Forum at Zappeion Hall, hosted by Xinhua alongside the Chinese Embassy.
The French Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the government ministry responsible for national museums, historic monuments, the national archives, and the promotion of the arts in France — covering also the performing arts, visual arts, cinema, and audiovisual production.It operates a national network of museums, regional cultural centers (maisons de culture), and archive sites. The Ministry defines, coordinates, and evaluates government policy on the performing and visual arts, conducts the government’s media policy and participates alongside other relevant bodies in implementing government policy on communications technology, media, and the internet.
Les Amis de Wu Jianmin is a Paris-based cultural association, founded in 2017 in memory of Wu Jianmin (吳建民), who served as Chinese Ambassador to France from 1998 to 2003 and died in a road accident in Wuhan in June 2016. The association promoted Sino-French bilateral exchanges through an annual scholarship that apparently ran annually from 2017 to 2019, sending French students and researchers on two-week trips to China. The association also organizes public events in Paris, including educational forums and culture and tourism dialogues. The association co-organized an event with the China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), a body under the direct supervision of the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, in April 2026.
The Observatorio de la Política China (OPCh) is a research group founded in 2004 by Galician sinologist Xulio Ríos under the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (IGADI), a Spain-based think tank, and with backing from Casa Asia, a public diplomacy consortium backed by the Spanish government that produces analysis on the Asia-Pacific region. The OPCh says its focus is on Chinese legal reform, human rights, cross-Strait unification, and foreign policy. It publishes a quarterly journal, Jiexi Zhongguo (解析中國), or “Analyzing China,” annual reports on both China and Taiwan, and a weekly Taiwan briefing called Taiwan Hebdo. Notably, the OPCh’s parent institution, IGADI, lists “unification” as one of OPCh’s research areas — a term that also reflects China’s position on Taiwan. In 2024, the group visited Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei, indicating that it seeks to maintain ties with both China and Taiwan. In 2014, OPCh signed a cooperation agreement with the European regional office of Xinhua, the official news agency of the People’s Republic of China. Under the agreement, the two parties pledged to exchange information and analysis, and co-organize seminars. OPCh has also co-run the Minzu Program (Programa Minzu) — an exchange program on governance of ethnic autonomy — with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院民族學與人類學研究所), a think tank directly under China’s State Council. It is also a member of the Silk Road NGO Cooperation Network (SIRONET), launched in 2017, a China-led group that claims to serve as a platform for civil society engagement related to Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative. In 2021, it signed a cooperation agreement on the promotion and study of the concept of a “Community with Shared Future” with the Institute for a Community with Shared Future (人類命運共同體研究院) at the Communication University of China in Beijing — a research center built around the concept of a “community of shared future for mankind” (人類命運共同體), a core Xi Jinping foreign policy concept. Ríos himself lived and worked in China between 2006 and 2010. His articles in translation have on several occasions made it into China’s [Reference News](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E8%83%A1%E5%88%A9%E5%A5%A5%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%A5%A5%E6%96%AF%22+%22%E5%8F%82%E8%80%83%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF%22&rlz=1C5CHFAenUS968US968&oq=%22%E8%83%A1%E5%88%A9%E5%A5%A5%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%A5%A5%E6%96%AF%22+%22%E5%8F%82%E8%80%83%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF%22&gslcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTExMTY5ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) (參考消息), a Xinhua-published newspaper that selectively translates foreign media articles. Since late 2022, the OPCh has been directed by Mexican scholar Raquel Isamara León de la Rosa.
The Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, is a powerful corporate membership federation that is one of Japan’s three major economic organizations, formed in May 2002 through the merger of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (established 1946) and the Japan Federation of Employers’ Associations. According to its own description, as of 2025, the federation comprises 574 leading Japanese companies, 106 national industry associations, and regional economic organizations covering all 47 prefectures. The Federation is regarded as Japan’s most powerful business lobby, as it builds consensus among its members on policy issues — from taxation and energy to trade and labor — and channels those positions to the government through formal proposals and political engagement. Its current chairman as of April 2026 is Yoshinobu Tsutsui (筒井義信), former chairman of Nippon Life Insurance Co., who maintains a close relationship with China, regarding it as a vital economic market. In January 2026, Tsutsui stressed the need to “find an opportunity for dialogue at the economic level” amid tensions over Chinese export restrictions on dual-use items targeting Japan.
The Keizai Koho Center (KKC), also known as the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, wasestablished in 1978 as an affiliate of Keidanren (日本經濟團體連合會), a corporate membership federation that is one of Japan’s three major economic organizations. KKC describes itself as a “platform” for the Japanese business community to engage with domestic and international stakeholders, conducting programs through which some 700 companies and 40 industry associations seek to develop ties with lawmakers, government officials, scholars, journalists, business executives, and educators. KKC also analyzes public policy and the Japanese economy, publishes expert commentary andorganizes meetings with foreign media to facilitate exchanges between journalists and its member corporations.
The Chinese Journalists’ Association of Taiwan (中華新聞記者協會) is a Taiwan-based media organization that received approval for its charter on February 8, 2012. The nonprofit association — which should not be confused with the more recognized Association of Taiwan Journalists (台灣新聞記者協會), a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) — operates with a board of 25 directors and seven supervisors elected for four-year terms. The organization says that its purpose is to promote research in journalism and foster national social development by hosting activities such as journalism competitions, cultural exhibitions, and scholarship programs. However, the association operates in the gray area between professional journalism and advocacy for cross-strait media relations. While maintaining the institutional trappings of a standard media association, and promoting press freedom in its charter, the organization also defines its role as “promoting cross-strait and international news exchange,” suggesting alignment with China. The organization’s board participated in the “Fifth Cross-Strait Media Summit” (第五届两岸媒体人峰会) in Beijing in October 2024, where representatives affirmed that “Taiwanese people are Chinese people,” and emphasized the media’s role as a bridge across the strait. The organization and its leadership regularly appear in Chinese state media coverage, including from agencies linked to the United Front Work Department. The association has also sponsored events such as the “Liaoning-Taiwan Perspectives: Envisioning the Future” (遼台視界，鏡啟未來) — with programming that frames China as an economic opportunity for Taiwanese while subtly advancing unification themes.
The Union of Cyprus Journalists (Ένωση Συντακτών Κύπρου), or UCJ, is Cyprus’ independent trade union association for journalists, established on April 8, 1959. The organization aims to safeguard press freedom, defend journalists’ rights and independence, improve employment conditions — including a call in 2024 for decent salaries and better working conditions — and enhance professional standards. UCJ is a member of the European Federation of Journalists.
