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Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan

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The Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan (哈薩克斯坦記者協會) is a national journalists’ organization based in Almaty. It was re-established in 2001 as the legal successor to the Soviet-era union of journalists of the Kazakh SSR, which state media date to 1959. The old union lapsed after failing to re-register under a 1996 law on public associations. From its re-establishment, the union was led by Seitkazy Matayev, a former press secretary to President Nursultan Nazarbayev who also headed the National Press Club. He is credited with reviving the union and its regional branches. In 2016, Matayev was convicted of embezzling state funds and tax evasion, charges his family called politically motivated. He was released on parole in December 2017, and state media again described him as the union’s chairman in 2024. According to a report in early 2026, the union’s membership had exceeded 6,000. The union has engaged with the official All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies, since at least 2017. That year, a union representative attended a Belt and Road journalist organizations’ forum in Beijing addressed by ACJA leadership. In September 2026, the union co-organized the China-Kazakhstan Media Roundtable in Almaty with the ACJA.

Union of Journalists of Tajikistan

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The Union of Journalists of Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦記者聯盟) is Tajikistan’s oldest national journalists’ organization. It was established in 1959 at the first congress of journalists of what was then the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. The union describes itself as an independent, self-governing public organization. It brings together journalists’ unions from the country’s regions, cities and districts, with branches in the Khatlon, Sughd and Gorno-Badakhshan regions. Its Dushanbe office is at 16 Sadi Sherozi Avenue, the same building that houses the state news agency Khovar and the state newspaper Jumhuriyat. The union operates in a severely restricted media environment. In 2024, a European Parliament motion on state repression against independent media noted that dozens of Tajik journalists had gone into exile. In October 2026, the union signed a cooperation agreement with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies. The agreement provides for building a joint “Tajikistan and China Journalists’ Home” mechanism. A day later, the union joined the ACJA’s International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家).

National Federation of Journalists Brazil

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Founded on September 20, 1946, the National Federation of Journalists (巴西全國記者聯合會), or FENAJ, is Brazil’s national body of regional journalist trade unions, headquartered in Brasília. FENAJ does not enroll individual journalists directly. Its members are the state and municipal journalist unions, which numbered 31 in 2023, according to a FENAJ letter from that year. FENAJ defends the labor rights of journalists and is elected by direct vote of journalists nationwide. It is the Brazilian affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, the world’s largest federation of journalists’ unions. FENAJ has also developed ties with the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies. In 2018, the two organizations signed an agreement in Brasília to exchange news about the Belt and Road Initiative and to jointly organize seminars, training, interviews and awards. In July 2025, FENAJ received an ACJA certificate designating it an “International Home of Journalists” (國際記者之家). The designation commits it to hosting foreign journalists from the ACJA-led Belt and Road Journalists Network (一帶一路記者組織合作平台) who visit Brazil.

Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde

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The Association of Journalists of Cabo Verde (佛得角記者協會), or AJOC, is Cabo Verde’s journalists’ union. It was founded on November 24, 1990 and is based in the Plateau district of the capital, Praia. Its full Portuguese name, Associação Sindical dos Jornalistas de Cabo Verde, identifies it as a union association. Its members work in the press, radio, television, news agencies and online media, and it advocates for journalists’ professional and social interests nationwide. AJOC is a national partner of the Media Foundation for West Africa, an Accra-based press freedom organization, which describes AJOC as independent of the state, political parties and economic interests. In October 2026, AJOC joined the International Home of Journalists (國際記者之家). The network is run by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA, a Chinese Communist Party-led professional association that serves a key role in implementing press control policies.

Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Italy

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The Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Italy (義大利中國商會) is a Milan-based association representing Chinese companies operating in Italy. It describes itself as a “non-profit, non-governmental organization.” Originally opened in 2008 as the “Italian Association of Chinese Enterprises,” it was officially renamed in 2021. According to its website, the chamber is “approved” (批准) by Italy’s Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy — the government body responsible for industrial and business policies — and supported by the PRC’s Ministry of Commerce. Chinese state broadcaster CGTN described it as the only recognized organization representing Chinese enterprises in Italy, with more than 120 members.

Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center

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The Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center (秘華文化中心), known in Spanish as the Centro Cultural Peruano Chino, is a non-profit organization that describes itself as dedicated to the integration and cultural development of the Peruvian-Chinese community, or tusán. It was founded on August 30, 1981, and runs Villa Tusán, a social, cultural and sports club on the Carretera Central east of Lima. China’s government-run news agency, Xinhua, has described it as an organization of mainly Peruvian-born professionals, such as scholars and engineers, that promotes Chinese traditional culture and Peru-China exchange, with more than 1,800 members. The center has worked with the PRC Embassy on public projects. It co-created the Parque Chino (Chinese Park) in Lima’s Miraflores district with the embassy and the Chinese community, and in July 2026 its representatives attended an embassy ceremony presenting replicas of Qin dynasty terracotta warriors to the Municipality of Lima. It is one of three members of the Patronato that manages Lima’s Chinese-funded Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center).

Chinese Benevolent Society Peru

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The Chinese Benevolent Society (秘魯中華通惠總局) is Peru’s oldest and most influential Chinese community organization and the national umbrella body for Chinese and Chinese-Peruvian associations across the country. It is registered in Spanish as the Sociedad Central de Beneficencia China Ton Huy Chong Koc, a name that formerly lacked the romanized Chinese suffix. It was founded in 1886 by Zheng Zaoru (鄭藻如), the Qing dynasty’s envoy to Peru, and today oversees a network of affiliated associations in Lima and the provinces. The society maintains close ties with the PRC Embassy. In December 2022, Ambassador Song Yang (宋揚) briefed its leaders on the “spirit” of the CCP’s 20th Party Congress and urged them to “support the embassy’s work” (支持使館工作). Embassy diplomats attended the installation of its 2026–2028 board. In February 2025, the society co-organized a Spring Festival gala at Peru’s National Theater with the embassy and the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中華全國歸國華僑聯合會). In August 2025, it hosted a war commemoration co-organized by the Peru Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (秘魯中國和平統一促進會), a body tied to the CCP’s United Front system. According to RTHK, the society has also been invited to take part in Beijing’s foreign aid program, distributing emergency funds to Chinese citizens in Peru. It is one of three members of the Patronato that manages Lima’s Chinese-funded Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center).

Center for Advanced Studies and Research

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The Center for Advanced Studies and Research, or CASR, is a Malaysian organization launched in June 2025 that characterizes itself as a non-partisan think tank “committed to advancing rigorous research, policy innovation, and strategic advisory to address Malaysia’s most pressing challenges.” Its website publishes English and Chinese-language commentary on Malaysian electoral politics, including the 2026 Johor state election, and on regional affairs. On July 30, 2026, CASR and the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心), or WCICO, a Chongqing body for state-led external propaganda, launched a Kuala Lumpur bureau of WCICO’s Bridging News (陸海財經) brand. At the same event they released a joint report on Chongqing-Malaysia cooperation in ASEAN markets. A September 15, 2026, CASR commentary promoting western China’s development as a model for the Global South linked repeatedly to iChongqing, WCICO’s English-language platform. CASR’s website was registered in January 2025 to a private limited company in Selangor state, the Center for Advanced Studies and Research Sdn. Bhd.

Centro de la Amistad Peruano China

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The Centro de la Amistad Peruano China (Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center) is a cultural venue in Lima’s Jesús María district. The Chinese government funded the Centro with a 20-million-yuan donation, and the building was formally handed over to the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation, a body attached to Peru’s foreign ministry, between 2011 and 2015, during the ambassadorship of Huang Minhui (黃敏慧). The Centro is managed by the Patronato del Centro de la Amistad Peruano China, a private non-profit civil association, which says the building was a gift marking 150 years of Chinese immigration to Peru, built under a 2007 economic and technical cooperation agreement between the two governments. The Patronato consists of three members, two with strong to moderate ties to the Chinese Party-state. The first is the Chinese Benevolent Society (秘魯中華通惠總局), Peru’s oldest and largest Chinese community organization. PRC diplomats routinely attend the installation of its leadership, and in August 2025 it co-hosted a commemoration with the Peru Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (秘魯中國和平統一促進會), a body tied to the CCP’s United Front system. The second is the Peruvian Chinese Cultural Center, which co-created a public park in Lima’s Miraflores district with the PRC Embassy. The third is the Peruvian Chinese Association, a heritage organization. The Patronato’s president, Erasmo Jesús Rolando Wong Lu Vega (黃業生), is a businessman and former civil engineer who founded the Peruvian Chinese Association in 1999 and whose business group holds a majority stake in the broadcaster Willax Televisión. The Patronato’s registered fiscal address in La Molina matches the address listed for Wong in the Panama Papers. In November 2024, the Centro hosted and supported a Chongqing propaganda office promotion event, at which the Western China International Communication Organization (西部國際傳播中心) opened a Lima liaison office for its Bridging News (陸海財經) brand. The Peruvian-Chinese Friendship Center had more than 23,000 followers on Facebook as of October 2026.