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Entity Type: Domestic Media with PRC Party-State Involvement

Canadian Chinese News Agency

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Canadian Chinese News Agency (加拿大中華新聞社), which operates the Chinese-language portal ChinaNews.org as well as the Canadian portal Canadian Chinese Information Online (加拿大华人资讯网), or chinanews.ca, was founded in Hong Kong in 2010 by Chang Jianguo (常建國), maintaining editorial centers in North America, Central Asia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The agency’s own “About Us” page states it was founded by Chang Jianguo (常建國), described there as honorary chairman of the Xi’an Municipal Overseas Chinese Federation (西安市僑聯), a body that operates within China’s United Front Work Department system, which coordinates outreach to overseas Chinese communities on the CCP’s behalf. The outlet describes its mission as “showcasing China’s image and spreading China’s voice,” and states that it aims to “tell China’s story well” and serve as a bridge of trust between mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, overseas Chinese communities, and the international community. According to the agency’s own biography of Chang, which instead identifies him as the federation’s deputy chairman, he also chairs China Media Group (中華傳媒集團) and serves as executive editor-in-chief of the Canada channel of the People’s Daily Overseas Edition’s website (人民日報海外網). The same page shows Chang meeting Chinese State Council Vice Premier Liu Guozhong (劉國中) and Central Propaganda Department deputy head Hu Heping (胡和平), and states that he was received by then-Politburo Standing Committee member Liu Yunshan (劉雲山) at the 2016 Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum in Beijing and by Politburo member and Central Propaganda Department head Huang Kunming (黃坤明) at the close of the 2018 Overseas Chinese New Media Summit in Hangzhou. In April 2023, the agency signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Henan International Communication Center, one of 16 such agreements the Henan center signed with overseas Chinese-language outlets that month.The site chinanews.ca continues to maintain a Hong Kong contact number as of August 2026.

Phoenix Television

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Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛視), operated by Phoenix Media Investment (Holdings) Limited, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese-language broadcaster established on March 31, 1996, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK: 2008). The company’s largest shareholder is Bauhinia Culture Holdings, a company wholly owned by China’s central government, which acquired a 21 percent stake from founder Liu Changle in April 2021. China Mobile Hong Kong, a subsidiary of state-owned China Mobile, separately holds approximately 19.7 percent of Phoenix’s shares. Taiwanese regulators concluded in 2022 that this ownership structure gave Beijing direct control over the network, and Phoenix subsequently ceased its Taiwan operations after failing to meet a remediation deadline set by Taiwanese authorities. Phoenix operates six satellite channels distributed across mainland China, Hong Kong, and overseas Chinese communities, and has co-produced Hong Kong national security-themed programming with the Hong Kong Police Force.

European Chinese News

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 European Chinese News (歐洲華人報) is a Milan-based, Chinese-language weekly that publishes every Monday. As of July 2026, the outlet was led by chairwoman Angela Zhou (周小燕), a Wenzhou-born entrepreneur whose wider conglomerate, Milan Huaxia Group (米蘭華夏集團), also spans restaurants, a winery, and fashion ventures. The paper, founded in 2004, covers a broad range of topics, such as international news, China news, Italy-Europe news, sports, lifestyle, tech, Chinese-community updates, local news, and military affairs, the majority of which are direct republishings of China News Service’s articles. It also publishes a weekly “Tibet Special Edition” (西藏專版) produced by the Tibet branch of the official China News Service (中國新聞社), the news wire under the United Front Work Department of the CCP. In 2026, the paper served as the local (Italian) organizer of the European Chinese Media Forum (歐洲華文傳媒論壇) in Milan, an event run by the European Chinese Media Association. The paper also holds a social media presence with a Facebook page. 

Dragon Newspaper

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Dragon Newspaper (龍報) is a Chinese-language newspaper serving the Chinese diaspora in Russia, headquartered in St. Petersburg and operated by a company rendered in Chinese as 聖彼得堡鳳凰傳媒公司, a name that cannot be independently confirmed in English. It registered with Russia’s publications ministry in February 2000, holding its launch ceremony in St. Petersburg on February 7 of that year, according to a 2012 profile from China Central Television. Its stated readership includes Chinese embassies, Chinese companies, and Chinese-run businesses in Russia. The same profile said the paper maintained “long-term, stable cooperative relationships” with China Central Television, China News Service, and the St. Petersburg Baltic Media Group (聖彼得堡波羅的海傳媒集團), a company then run by Oleg Rudnov, who was reported by Russian and international media to have been a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Baltic Media Group collapsed in 2015 following Rudnov’s death. Control passed to his son, Sergey Rudnov, later sanctioned by Canada, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and separately linked by Russian and international media to ownership of Komsomolskaya Pravda, one of Russia’s largest-circulation tabloid newspapers, through the company LDV Press. Dragon Newspaper’s own site says China News Service established a formal “strategic partnership” with Dragon Newspaper in 2012, backing expansion of its Chinese edition and launch of a Russian-language edition. That institutional tie appears to run deeper than a content partnership: Dragon Newspaper‘s website lists a Chinese government internet registration (ICP filing) naming Beijing Zhongxin Tangyin Technology Development Co., Ltd. (北京中新唐印科技發展有限公司) as registrant, a company that corporate registry records indicate is wholly owned by Beijing Zhongxin Tangfeng Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (北京中新唐風文化傳播有限公司), which is itself wholly owned by China News Service. The Tangfeng company operates as China News Service’s “Overseas Center” (海外中心), established in 1996 to supply full newspaper pages, rather than wire copy alone, to Chinese-language media abroad, according to a company recruitment listing. Separately, Dragon Newspaper‘s Android app is published under a Google Play developer account listing a chinanews.com.cn email address as its support contact, and the same account publishes apps for at least five other overseas Chinese-language outlets in Canada, Japan, and elsewhere, all sharing a “com.cns.” software package prefix. The paper is led by President Li Shuangjie (李雙傑), who in 2025 directed its coverage of Xi Jinping’s state visit to Russia and commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the “Great Patriotic War,” including interviews with war veterans, according to the overseas edition of the People’s Daily. The same profile said Li has overseen a 2023 series called Toward China’s Invitation (共赴中国之邀) on global development challenges and small-scale livelihood cooperation projects, and that she has organized Chinese-Russian painting exhibitions and youth friendship football matches, framing media as both a communication link and an avenue for cooperation between the two countries. Dragon Newspaper‘s site separately names a Russian-language chief editor whose name is rendered as “Leonid Georgievich Gulin” (列昂尼德·格奥尔基耶维奇·古林), a romanization unconfirmed elsewhere.

Ouhua Media Group

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Ouhua Media Group (歐華傳媒集團), known formally in Spanish as Ouhua New Media Communication Group S.L. — S.L. being the Spanish designation for a limited liability company — is a Madrid-based Chinese-language multimedia company founded on December 8, 2002. Its flagship publication is Ouhua Bao (歐華報), a Chinese-language newspaper with bureaus in Barcelona and Valencia and a representative office in mainland China. The group also operatesEl Mandarin (東方週刊), a Spanish-language media project launched in 2005 and converted to a website in 2012, as well as the news portal ouhua.info. The Ouhua website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number (滬ICP備09078614號), suggesting it is registered as a Chinese domestic entity. The group identifies itself as an overseas cooperation partner of China News Service (中國新聞社) and Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), both Chinese state media outlets, and maintains partnerships with CCTV-4 and Phoenix Satellite Television’s European channel, as well as with several Chinese provincial government web portals including Enorth.com.cn (北方網), southcn.com (南方網), Red Net (紅網), Tibet News Network (西藏新聞網), and Tianshan Net (天山網). Tianshan Net is operated by the Xinjiang New Media Center (新疆新媒體中心), a state entity under the Xinjiang Daily and Xinjiang Newspaper Media Group (新疆報業傳媒集團). According to the group’s own account, Spanish firm Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團) took a controlling stake in the group in late 2025. Tao Xinyi (陶辛夷), who built the group over approximately 28 years, holds the title of permanent honorary president (永久名譽社長).

China Weekly (Egypt)

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Established in 2012 as the sole Chinese-founded publication in the Middle East with official registration under Egypt’s General News Authority, China Weekly Egypt publishes in both Chinese and Arabic. The newspaper focuses on Chinese politics, economics, culture, and sports while featuring a special section on “Chinese in Egypt.” Led by director Ma Qiang (马强) since its founding, the publication produced a “Friendship Special Edition” during Xi Jinping’s 2016 Egypt visit. The newspaper appears connected to China News Service (CNS)—an official state news wire under the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party—based on content analysis and frequent cross-posting to CNS websites. Despite initially achieving financial break-even and expanding to Sudan and Jordan, Ma Qiang told the CCP’s official People’s Daily in 2013, political turmoil in Egypt dramatically reduced the Chinese population from 50,000 to 8,000, challenging the paper’s survival. Ma led the Egypt media delegation to China in October 2024, where he received the PRC flag during a formal welcome ceremony attended by top propaganda officials and CNS leader Tang Weijie (唐伟杰).

Geoecohub

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Economic Center Network, operating digitally as Geoecohub, is a Georgian news website with editor-in-chief Liana Jorjoliani. Jorjoliani has maintained a sustained focus on Chinese affairs since at least 2015, participating in China’s 2019 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists and covering the 20th National Congress of the CCP in October 2022 as a foreign correspondent in Beijing. In her 2022 coverage, Jorjoliani praised China’s anti-corruption efforts and environmental policies, stating “China shows zero tolerance in opposing corruption, which reflects the Chinese government’s strong sense of responsibility” — a highly uncritical and, many experts would argue, uninformed perception of related policies — and describing the Congress organization as “excellent” evidence of “China’s open attitude.” Her reporting, including the widespread use of state media content from Xinhua News Agency and China News Service, occurs within the context of Georgia’s 2023 Strategic Partnership with China, which elevated bilateral relations and committed Georgia to “strengthen coordination and collaboration” with Beijing on regional and international affairs. Research by Civic Idea has documented pro-China propaganda networks in Georgian media following the partnership’s signing. Geoecohub has prominently promoted clear propaganda from China, including 2025 reports from a Xinhua News Agency think tank that purport to “reveal the truth about external forces interfering in the South China Sea issue.” Jorjoliani participated in the February 2026 Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum journalist delegation touring Chinese industrial sites.The registration information for the Geoecohub website provides a Russia-based e-mail contact, medea23@rambler.ru, that links to the Facebook account of “Lika Zhorzholiani,” apparently an alternate spelling for Liana Jorjoliani.

Australia Asia Business Weekly

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Australia Asia Business Weekly (澳洲環球商報) was established on August 1, 2008, as Perth’s bilingual Chinese-English weekly newspaper serving the local Asian community. The publication covers Australian news, community news, information on immigration and education, and classified advertisements serving the diaspora population. The paper says on its online “About Us” page that it cooperates with Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po (文匯報), publishing two full pages each week of content directly from the pro-Beijing state newspaper. It also claims official backing from China’s Guangdong Province Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee (中國廣東省海外華人委員會), suggesting a possible formal connection with the Chinese government and its “united front” overseas outreach structure. In 2017, Australia Asia Business Weekly partnered with Chinese digital platform Huaren Toutiao (華人頭條) to create a local news app for Perth’s Chinese community called “Huaren Toutiao Perth Station” (華人頭條珀斯站), allowing the newspaper to reach younger audiences in Australia.

EurAsia Info

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EurAsia Info (歐亞時報社) is a Swiss-based online platform founded in early 2012 by Zhu Ailian (朱愛蓮) and headquartered in Zurich. Based on the visual layout of its website, it appears to be a news aggregation platform focused on European news for Chinese-speaking audiences. The navigation bar includes sections for different European countries (Switzerland, Germany, France, UK, etc.) and links to various international news sources, both in Chinese and other languages, including Swiss Info, DW, RFI, and BBC News. Operating from Bahnhofstrasse 100, the website is described as “Europe’s first Chinese-English bilingual magazine and newspaper” by the People’s Daily Overseas Edition (人民日報海外版). The organization aims to “tell China’s story well” (讲好中国故事), echoing Chinese Communist Party policy on external propaganda — with Zhu stating her mission is to be a “messenger between China and Europe” and to “pass China’s good stories and good content to the local mainstream society.” This language closely aligns with Beijing’s directive that Chinese media must work internationally to strengthen and innovate external propaganda. The organization’s “About Us” page furthers this alignment, stating that the outlet “closely aligns with the Belt and Road Initiative” and aims to “showcase China to the world.”  This mission is reflected in the organization’s extensive partnerships. In the 2017 version of its website, there are numerous “media partners” (合作媒体), including major Chinese state media outlets such as People’s Daily Overseas Edition (人民日报海外版), China News Service (中新网), People’s Daily (人民日报社), Xinhua News Agency (新华社), China Daily (中国日报网), as well as China Central Television (中央电视台). The platform has offices in Germany, Italy, Austria and France, as well as Beijing, Dalian, and Shenzhen.