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Kyrgyz National University

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Kyrgyz National University (吉爾吉斯民族大學), known officially as Kyrgyz National University named after Jusup Balasagyn (KNU), is a public, non-profit higher education institution in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Its origins trace to March 30, 1925, when the Council of the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Region discussed establishing the Kara-Kyrgyz Institute of Education, which opened that October in Pishpek, the former name of Bishkek. The institution changed names and forms several times over the following decades, eventually becoming Kyrgyz State University in 1951 and taking its current name in 2002, when Kyrgyzstan’s government renamed it in honor of Jusup Balasagyn, an 11th-century Turkic poet, philosopher, and statesman of the Kara-Khanid Khanate best known for the political treatise Kutadgu Bilig. KNU is a legal entity whose founder is the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, represented as of 2026 by the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation, which assumed oversight of universities and research institutions after President Sadyr Japarov split the former Ministry of Education and Science into two separate ministries in May 2025.

Kyrgyz State Technical University

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Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov (KSTU), commonly known as Kyrgyz State Technical University, is a public, non-profit higher education institution in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, founded in 1954. It is Kyrgyzstan’s largest technical university, offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs across engineering, energy, transport, and information technology fields, and includes the Kyrgyz-German Technical Institute, established with the Berlin Technical University of Applied Sciences in 2004. KSTU was previously recognized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic; oversight of Kyrgyzstani universities now falls to the Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation, formed when that ministry was split in May 2025. KSTU hosts the Kyrgyzstan Luban Workshop, a vocational training center built with Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power and unveiled in October 2024.

Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, initially named the Moscow Institute of Economics and Finance, was established by the People’s Commissariat of Finance, the Soviet Union’s financial governing body, in 1918. The university is wholly state-owned, with the Government of the Russian Federation as its sole founder, and its rector is appointed by direct government decree rather than through an independent academic process. The university has evolved into a research and academic complex with eight faculties across 27 campuses. In 2026, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China, the university signed a cooperation agreement with China Media Group outlining collaboration on culture, research, and mass communication, including the co-production of news and short videos.

ISCOM

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ISCOM, or the Institut Supérieur de Communication, is a private French institution that trains students for careers in communications and advertising, with eight campuses across France. According to ISCOM’s own description of the school, it combines academic coursework with practical, hands-on training built on ongoing partnerships with industry professionals. Caroline Grassaud has directed the school’s Paris campus since 2023. In June 2026, Grassaud signed a cooperation agreement with the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学), arranging a student exchange tied to the Chinese university’s School of Advertising and Brand Communication. ISCOM is marking its 40th anniversary this year.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (布鲁塞尔自由大学), or VUB, is a Dutch-speaking public research university in Brussels, Belgium. According to the university’s own account of its history, it traces its roots to the Free University of Brussels, founded in 1834 by lawyer Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen as a secular alternative to church-run higher education, which split along linguistic lines in 1969 into VUB and the French-speaking Université libre de Bruxelles. VUB became a fully independent institution in 1970. The university enrolls roughly 22,000 students across eight faculties and campuses in Etterbeek, Jette, Anderlecht, and Pajottegem. VUB previously hosted a Confucius Institute, a Chinese state-funded language and culture program, established in 2015 and shut down in 2019 after Belgian security services accused its director of working as a recruiter for Chinese intelligence.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

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The Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) is a private research university in Seoul, founded in April 1954 by Kim Heung-bae (金興培). The university currently teaches 45 foreign languages and includes programs in humanities, law, political science, social sciences, business, medical science, natural sciences, and engineering. Within its College of Social Sciences, the university offers Journalism and Mass Communication majors that include programs in Journalism and Media Studies, Advertising and Public Relations, and Television and Film. While no formal framework for cooperation with China was found, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies maintains engagement with Chinese institutions through participation in bilateral forums. In October 2025, Professor Park Han-jin from the College of Chinese Studies participated in the 2025 China-South Korea Media Cooperation Forum held in Seoul under the theme “China-South Korea Cooperation for an Intelligent Future.”

East Asian Civilization Research Center

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The East Asian Civilization Research Center (东亚文明研究中心) at SWPS University, or CCAW, is an interdisciplinary research institute established in 2003 and headquartered in Warsaw, focusing on political, cultural, linguistic, and literary studies of Mainland China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan. Founded by the late Professor Krzysztof Gawlikowski, the center evolved from an organizational unit into the Department of Asian Studies within the Faculty of Humanities in 2017-2018. The center participates in the European Union’s Horizon Europe “China Horizons” project examining contemporary Chinese society and culture, and operates a research platform on hermeneutics and translation of classical Chinese texts in collaboration with the University of Warsaw, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and Adam Mickiewicz University.

Seoul National University

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Seoul National University (서울대학교) is South Korea’s flagship public research university located in Seoul. The university was established on August 27, 1946, by merging ten institutions of higher education around the Seoul area. The university comprises 16 colleges offering 83 undergraduate programs and serves nearly 17,000 undergraduate and 11,000 graduate students. While no formal framework for cooperation with China was found, Seoul National University maintains engagement with Chinese institutions through participation in bilateral forums. In October 2025, Professor Park Byeong-seug, visiting professor at the university’s Graduate School of International Studies, participated in the 2025 China-South Korea Media Cooperation Forum held in Seoul under the theme “China-South Korea Cooperation for an Intelligent Future.”

Dankook University

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Dankook University (단국대학교), or DKU, is a private research university in South Korea founded in November 1947, with campuses in Yongin (about 40 kilometers south of Seoul) and Cheonan (about 90 kilometers south of Seoul). The university hosts more than 30,000 students and employs approximately 2,700 faculty members across 20 undergraduate colleges and 10 professional graduate schools. The university is recognized by the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange, an institution under China’s Ministry of Education, which ensures degree recognition for Chinese graduates. While no official framework for cooperation with China was found, Dankook University maintains engagement with Chinese institutions through participation in bilateral forums. In October 2025, Professor Kim Jin-ho from the College of Social Sciences participated in the 2025 China-South Korea Media Cooperation Forum held in Seoul under the theme “China-South Korea Cooperation for an Intelligent Future.”