Launched in Phnom Penh in May 2019, the Cambodia-China Journalist Association is part of Beijing’s broader media engagement across Southeast Asia. Co-presidents Soy Sopheap (Cambodia) and Liu Xiao Guang (刘晓光) (China) established the organization to “promote friendship and cooperation,” though the association’s stated objectives raise questions about its journalistic independence. Chinese embassy political counselor Zuo Wenxing (左文星) framed the CCJA’s role aspromoting “positive news” about both countries while “fighting against fake news”—language that aligns with China’s approach to media narratives. The association pledges to“professionally disseminate factual information about Chinese investments in Cambodia,” suggesting its function may lean toward advocacy rather than independent reporting.
The Australia-China Xinjiang Association (澳大利亞中國新疆聯誼會) is an organization based in Sydney that promotes connections between Australia and China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Association’s president, Tu Zhen (涂真), has participated in high-level events with Chinese officials and diaspora leaders. Notable activities included co-organizing a 2016 Lunar New Year gala featuring Xinjiang performing artists alongside the Australian Chinese Arts and Literature Association and Australia’s Nanhai Media. The event, hosted by the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People’s Government, showcased Uyghur songs, dances, and performances including selections from the Twelve Muqam. Tu Zhen attended a 2014 reception honoring Zhou Wenzhong (周文重), former Chinese Ambassador to the United States and Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia, alongside representatives from Chinese state media including Xinhua, Phoenix Television, and China Central Television, as well as numerous Chinese community organizations in Sydney.
The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (馬來西亞旅遊業協會), or MATTA, was founded in 1975 and serves as the national umbrella representative body for the travel industry in Malaysia. It works closely with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Malaysia and the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board, and organizes fairs, seminars, conventions, and workshops to promote the industry and benefit its members. MATTA’s membership comprises over 2,900 local tour and travel organizations as well as overseas affiliations, with state chapters across Malaysia. Its flagship event, the MATTA Fair, is a major biannual consumer travel exhibition held in Kuala Lumpur. In May 2026, MATTA signed a memorandum of understanding with the Sichuan International Communication Center (四川國際傳播中心), or SICC, covering joint promotional activities, tourist referrals, and resource co-development.
The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會) is a newspaper industry association established on May 10, 1954, originally founded by four of Hong Kong’s largest newspapers at the time: Kung Sheung Daily News (工商日報), Wah Kiu Yat Po (華僑日報), Sing Tao Daily (星島日報), and the English-language South China Morning Post. It serves as the largest newspaper industry body in Hong Kong, with current membership comprising 14 major newspapers, but has increasingly represented pro-government and pro-Beijing positions. The society organizes the annual Hong Kong Best Journalism Awards. A Lingua Sinica analysis in 2026 found that the Hong Kong Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group (香港大公文匯傂媒集團) — run by the PRC government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong — has ranked first in total awards at the society’s annual journalism competition every year since 2019, a period coinciding with Hong Kong’s broader press freedom contraction following the 2019 protests. As recently as 2016, the awards were distributed across a more diverse field of independent outlets. In May 2023, it hosted a delegation from the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新職工作者協會), or ACJA, a party-led body whose constitution explicitly states it “serves as a bridge between the Party, the Chinese government and the press,” and which functions as a key instrument of CCP press control — managing the issuance of press cards to journalists in China and administering mandatory training in Marxist journalism doctrine. In June 2026, the society jointly signed a memorandum of understanding with Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社), Kazakhstan’s state-owned broadcaster, alongside the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新職行政人員協會), during a visit to Astana by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu that stressed the “telling of the Hong Kong story,” in echo of the CCP’s external propaganda objectives.
The Hong Kong News Executives’ Association (新聞行政人員協會) is a professional association established in 1986, dedicated according to its own description to safeguarding press freedom, enhancing cooperation among members, and maintaining professional standards. Membership comprises senior editorial staff — including chief editors, deputy chief editors, and news editors — from Hong Kong’s major media organizations, and numbered more than 100 at the time of the association’s most recent public membership statement. The association describes its activities as promoting journalism exchanges across “the two shores, Hong Kong and Macau” (兩岸港澳) — a formulation that reflects standard PRC framing of cross-strait relations. According to its own website, the association’s April 2026 40th anniversary dinner was attended by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, the secretary-general of the Central Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, and a deputy commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ office in Hong Kong. Also present were representatives from Taiwan’s China Journalism Society (台灣中國新聞學會), an organization profiled on the website of the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會), or ACJA — the party-led body that serves as the leading instrument of CCP press and journalism control in China, managing the issuance of press cards to all journalists and administering mandatory training in Marxist journalism doctrine. The China Journalism Society was originally founded in Chongqing in March 1941 and revived in Taiwan in 1965, and its profile appears on the ACJA website alongside those of the ACJA’s own member organizations. In November 2025, the association’s executive committee met with Lee specifically to discuss the Policy Address directive on helping local media expand networks beyond Hong Kong. In February 2024, the association submitted recommendations on Article 23 national security legislation. In June 2026, it jointly signed a memorandum of understanding with Khabar Agency (哈巴爾通訊社), Kazakhstan’s state-owned broadcaster, alongside the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (香港報業公會), during a visit to Astana by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu.
The Chinese School of Classical Studies at Athens (Κινεζική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα), or CSCSA (中國古典文明研究院), was announced on November 7, 2024, at the first World Conference of Classics in Beijing, an academic summit focused on ancient civilizations, and formally inaugurated in Athens on November 28, 2024. Established by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院), or CASS, with the Greek Ministry of Culture as primary partner, the CSCSA is registered in Greece as a non-profit legal entity and describes itself as a “non-profit research institution” (非營利性研究機構). The WHOIS record for the CSCSA’s domain lists the registrant as the Chinese Academy of History (中國歷史研究院), a CASS-affiliated body, with a @cass.org.cn contact email, suggesting the institute operates under direct CASS administrative oversight. CSCSA leadership has framed the institute as a vehicle for Xi Jinping’s Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), aiming to “construct an independent Chinese knowledge system” within classical studies. The institute’s activities span archaeological fieldwork in Greece, academic seminars, exhibitions, training programs for young scholars, and a scholarly journal. According to CASS, the CSCSA was established to fulfill understandings previously reached between Chinese and Greek leaders on deepening exchanges and mutual learning between the two civilizations.
The Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (Ένωσις Συντακτών Ημερησίων Εφημερίδων Αθηνών) is a Greek trade union representing journalists at Athens-based daily newspapers and broadcast media. The union was established on December 14, 1914, with the aim of negotiating collective labor agreements for its members, monitoring press ethics, and defending pluralism in Greek media.
The Hellenic Union of Editors of Periodical Press (Ένωση Δημοσιογράφων Ιδιοκτητών Περιοδικού Τύπου), or HUEPP, is a Greek professional association based in Athens representing journalists who are also owners of printed periodicals, including newspapers and magazines. The association, founded in 1939, represents the interests of its members to the government and the media industry at large. It isa national member of the International Federation of Periodical Publishers (FIPP), and is also a member of the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association (ENPA) and the European Magazine Media Association (EMMA).
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.”
