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Gálvez Town Council

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The Ayuntamiento de Gálvez (加爾維斯市政府) is the municipal government of Gálvez, a town in Spain’s Toledo province in the Castile-La Mancha region. As of October 2026, the council was led by Manuel Guillermo Fernández Lázaro-Carrasco of the conservative People’s Party (人民黨). He won reelection in May 2023 after 28 years as mayor. On October 6, 2026, Fernández took part in a roundtable on local cooperation with China in Madrid. The roundtable was part of an event to promote the Spanish edition of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, Volume V (習近平談治國理政第五卷西文版), guided by China International Communications Group (中國外文局), an institution managed by the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department.

Communist Party of Spain

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The Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España), or PCE, was founded on November 14, 1921, following a split in the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. Headquartered in Madrid, the Marxist-Leninist party maintains the monthly publication Mundo Obrero and operates the Communist Youth Union of Spain. The party played a central role during the Spanish Civil War and currently holds seven seats in the Spanish Congress of Deputies as part of the United Left coalition. President José Luis Centella, former General Secretary from 2009-2018, who assumed the presidency around 2018, has been prominently featured in Chinese state media. Centella has made multiple visits to China, meeting with Communist Party of China officials and speaking at CCP-organized forums. 

Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan

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The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Vazirlar Mahkamasi) is the central executive body of the Uzbek government, established under Chapter 20 of Uzbekistan’s constitution, adopted December 8, 1992. Its composition and powers are set out in a national law on the Cabinet of Ministers, first adopted May 6, 1993 and most recently revised in a version dated October 25, 2024, published on Uzbekistan’s official legal-documents portal. Per the current law, the Cabinet consists of the prime minister, deputy prime ministers, and government ministers, and answers to Uzbekistan’s parliament, the Oliy Majlis, and to the president. It oversees the country’s ministries, state committees, and subordinate agencies, including state broadcaster MTRK Uzbekistan, which was ordered to report directly to the Cabinet under a 2005 Cabinet resolution reorganizing the broadcaster. The Cabinet is seated at the Government House on Independence Square (Mustaqillik Maydoni) in Tashkent.

Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment

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The Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment is a Finnish government ministry established on January 1, 2008, as part of the Government Program — or negotiated policy platform — of the second government (2007-2010) of Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, a former journalist and leader of Finland’s centrist Center Party. The ministry covers entrepreneurship, innovation, labor markets, and regional development, and also oversees energy policy, competition and consumer affairs, and labor migration. 

Kyrgyz Tuusu Publishing House

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Kyrgyz Tuusu Publishing House is a state-owned media enterprise in Kyrgyzstan, formed in January 2026 through the merger of four previously separate government publications: the national newspaper Kyrgyz Tuusu, the Russian-language daily Slovo Kyrgyzstana, the children’s magazine Baichchekey, and the literary journal Ala-Too. The publishing house is now the sole publisher of all four media. It also functions as a platform for official messaging from the Kyrgyz state. The secretary general of the Organization of Turkic States, an intergovernmental organization comprising all but one of the world’s Turkic sovereign states, has published articles in the magazine. Since the merger, the house has also co-hosted the May 2026 China-Kyrgyzstan Media Cooperation Forum in Bishkek with China’s People’s Daily (人民日報) and signed a cooperation

Kyrgyz Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation

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The Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation of the Kyrgyz Republic is a government body responsible for scientific research, higher education, intellectual property, and innovation policy. President Sadyr Japarov established the ministry by decree on May 12, 2025, splitting it off from the former Ministry of Education and Science along with the State Agency for Intellectual Property and Innovation. A companion body, the Ministry of Education, retained responsibility for pre-school, primary, and secondary education. As part of the reorganization, the former National Accreditation Commission became the Higher Attestation Commission under the new ministry, and the State Intellectual Property Fund was transferred to it as well. The ministry now serves as the state authority overseeing Kyrgyzstan’s public universities, including their founding status, accreditation, and cooperation agreements with foreign institutions.

Hong Kong Police Force

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The Hong Kong Police Force (香港警務處), formed on May 1, 1844, under the territory’s first Police Ordinance, is Hong Kong’s primary law enforcement agency, operating under the government’s Security Bureau. Following the imposition of the Hong Kong National Security Law by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee in 2020, the force established a National Security Department on July 1, 2020, headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police for National Security. The department investigates offenses under the national security law and conducts related intelligence work, and its head sits on the government’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security, which includes a National Security Adviser designated by China’s central government. The force’s Public Relations Branch has co-produced national security-themed television programming with broadcasters including Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Phoenix Television, forming part of a broader effort to promote public confidence in the police and awareness of national security law following the 2019 protests.

Hong Kong Security Bureau

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The Security Bureau (保安局) is a policy bureau of the Hong Kong government responsible for law and order, immigration and customs control, offender and drug rehabilitation, and emergency fire and rescue services. It oversees Hong Kong’s disciplined forces (meaning “uniformed”), including the Hong Kong Police Force, the Correctional Services Department, and the Immigration Department, according to the bureau’s own description of its mandate. Since the 2020 imposition of the Hong Kong National Security Law by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the bureau has taken a central role in implementing and publicizing national security enforcement, including gazetting amendments to the law’s implementing rules and producing its own media content, such as the 2026 television series NS Files: Decoded. The bureau is headed by the Secretary for Security, a principal official appointed by the Chief Executive.

Hong Kong National Security Department

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The National Security Department (國家安全處) is a specialized unit within the Hong Kong Police Force established to enforce the Hong Kong National Security Law. According to a Hong Kong government announcement made when the law was gazetted, police would establish the department on July 1, 2020, the day after the law took effect. The department is led by a Deputy Commissioner of Police for National Security, a position outside the force’s ordinary operations and management command structure, and works alongside the central government’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong. Its official mandate, as described by the police force, includes collecting and analyzing national security intelligence, investigating offenses that endanger national security, conducting counter-interference investigations and national security reviews, and carrying out tasks assigned by the territory’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security. The department has also organized national security-themed youth media competitions, including NStudio and NStory, and its officers have appeared as featured guests in Security Bureau-produced media content such as the television series NS Files: Decoded.