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China
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院), or CASS, is the PRC's official state research institution in the humanities and social sciences and a vehicle for shaping how China is talked about both at home and abroad. Founded in May 1977 out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, the ministry-level body sits under the State Council and counts more than 4,200 staff across 31 institutes and four national high-end think tanks. CASS describes itself as a "theoretical bastion o…
China
China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (中國遠洋海運集團有限公司) is a state-owned shipping and logistics conglomerate headquartered in Shanghai, owned by the State Council and supervised by SASAC. The group was formally established on February 18, 2016, following the State Council's January 2016 approval of a merger between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company and China Shipping (Group) Company, itself preceded by a December 2015 approval of the restructuring plan. The group
Greece
Alpha TV is a Greek free-to-air national television channel headquartered in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens. The station launched on September 27, 1999, briefly operating as Alpha Sky before adopting its present name. The channel airs Greek-language programs including original domestic fiction, live talk and entertainment shows, daily news bulletins under the Alpha News banner, and international films and series.…
Greece
Proto Thema (Πρώτο Θέμα) is a Greek Sunday newspaper first published on February 27, 2005 by well-known Greek journalists Themos Anastasiadis, Makis Triantafyllopoulos, and Tassos Karamitsos. Triantafyllopoulos has previously been accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda by the anti-propaganda portal Propastop, and by the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threa…
Spain
On May 26, 2021, Spain's Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團), a Madrid-based Chinese-run advertising and media company with close connections with state entities in the PRC, signed a cooperation agreement with the Zhejiang Provincial International Science and Technology Exchange Center (浙江省國際科技交流中心), a provincial government body based in Zhejiang Province, China, via an online video ceremony. The agreement was signed by Grupo Lucrea chairman Wang Peng (王鵬) and the director of t…
China, Romania
On May 19–20, 2026, 30 overseas Chinese-language media outlets from 17 countries and regions gathered in Lin'an, a suburban district of the city of Hangzhou in China's coastal Zhejiang Province, for an event focused on promoting the culture of the ancient Wu-Yue kingdom — a state that ruled parts of present-day Zhejiang and Jiangsu during the Five Dynasties period (907–960 CE) — to international audiences. Eight overseas Chinese media representatives were appointed as "Wu-Yue Culture Overseas Promotion Officers" at the gat…
Indonesia
Dr. Metastar (鹿見寰宇) is an Indonesia-based Chinese-language news and media platform operated by Zhang Weijia (章維佳), who serves as its president. The outlet describes itself as focused on China-Indonesia economic and trade news, financial information, and exhibition coverage, using the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a large Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, as an editorial framework for connecting Chinese and Indonesian business communities. Its website carries the odd tagline "From the Earth's Surface to the Metaverse." Content on the site is …
Australia
Finance Vision Australia (財視澳洲), also known as Fortune Connects Australia, is a Sydney-based Australian Chinese-language media outlet founded in 2015 by Zhan Jinlong (詹金龍), a Shanghai-born media executive who studied in Japan before relocating to Australia. The outlet focuses on financial and investment news for the Chinese-speaking community in Australia, and has organized investment summits and business events aimed initially at helping Chinese companies expand overseas, and more recently at attracting foreign investment into China. Its website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number, suggesting ti…
Australia, China
Longyi Group Australia (澳洲龍一集團), registered formally as Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd with Australian company number ACN 168256666, is a Melbourne-based investment and media company focused on facilitating bilateral investment between Australia and China. The group owns Finance Vision Australia (財視澳洲), the Chinese-language media outlet, and maintains branch operations in Shanghai, China, through two subsidiaries: Shanghai Longyi Advertising Co. Ltd (上海龍一廣告有限公司) and Shanghai Longyi Immigration and Visa Services Co. Ltd (上海龍一出入境服務有限公司). The group's website is longyigroup.cn, a Chinese domestic domain, and Finance Vision Australia's website carries a Sha…
Spain
Grupo Lucrea (啟創集團), registered formally in Spanish as Lucrea Diseño S.L., is a Madrid-based Chinese-owned advertising, marketing, and event management company founded in 2018 and headquartered at Calle Embajadores 199, 28045, Madrid. The company describes itself as the only Chinese-run advertising firm in Spain with fully integrated online and offline advertising channels, and claims membership in AUTOCONTROL, Spain's advertising self-regulation association. Its services include graphic design, social media management, outdoor advertising placement, and business event planning and execution. By its own account, the company had by 2019 established part…
Indonesia
Indonesia Shang Bao (印度尼西亞商報) is a Mandarin-language daily newspaper published in Jakarta, Indonesia, covering business, finance, politics, and international news. Founded on April 17, 2000, it was the first Chinese-language daily established in Indonesia following the collapse of President Suharto's New Order government in May 1998. Under Suharto, who ruled from 1967 until his resignation that year, all Chinese-language education and private media were banned, making the paper's founding a marker of the post-au…
Thailand
Kia Hua Tong Nguan (京華中原聯合日報) is a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand, and one of the few surviving Chinese-language print titles in the country. The paper was founded on July 16, 1984, through the merger of two earlier Bangkok-based Chinese-language dailies, Kia Hua (京華日報) and Chung Yuan (中原日報), with Chung Yuan ceasing publication on July 15, 1984, and folding into Kia Hua. The paper's predecessor, Kia Hua, was founded in 1957 and was at the time the only Chinese-language newspaper in Tha…
Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand
On May 15, 2026, senior executives from more than 40 overseas Chinese-language media organizations — including from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Taiwan — attended the 2026 Overseas Chinese-Language Media Jiangxi Tour (2026海外華文媒體江西行), a state-organized reporting tour in Jiangxi's capital city of Nanchang. Participants visited the Tengwang Pavilion (滕王閣) scenic area, where they attended a performance of "Dreaming of the Tengwang Pavilion," a large-scale outdoor immersive production that first opened in January 2021. Organizers said the activity aimed to leverage the "bridging role" of overseas Chinese-language media to help Jiangxi "enhance its international communicat…
Belgium
In March 2026, Chinese Ambassador to the European Union Cai Run (蔡潤) gave an interview to the Brussels Times, a Belgian English-language outlet. The interview focused on the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), China's national development blueprint, and its implications for China-EU relations. Cai claimed that the Plan would "inject stability and certainty into the world" and that China's trade and investment policies represent genuine openness, citing bilateral trade figures as evidence of a healthy relationship — without acknowledging that EU data
China, United Kingdom
In October 2025, Fu Hua (傅華), president of China's official Xinhua News Agency, met in Beijing with Alphonse Hardel, managing director at Reuters, the London-based international news agency. According to Xinhua's report, Fu described Reuters as one of the earliest Western news agencies to establish ties with Xinhua, citing a news cooperation agreement first signed between the two in 1957, covering news exchange and photo services. Fu called for continued cooperation "on the basis of mutual respect and shared benefits." Hardel said that both agencies share concerns about the responsible use of artificial intelligence in news and communications and exp…
Spain
In April 2025, Jishi Media signed a memorandum of understanding with Cátedra China, a Madrid-based think tank with close ties to the Chinese government. The agreement, signed in Madrid on April 11, commits both parties to producing and distributing media content to "deepen understanding of China in the Spanish-speaking world," to "develop and promote materials helping Spain understand the realities of 21st-century China," and to strengthening ties among media professionals, journalists, writers, and filmmakers in both countries — objectives that align closely with B…
Spain
On April 23, 2026, during a visit by a University of Salamanca delegation to Jilin Province, China, Jishi Media (吉視傳媒股份有限公司), a state-owned broadcaster in Jilin Province, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the University of Salamanca. The signing took place between You Zhiqiang (由志強), the chairman of Jishi, and the University of Salamanca’s computer science professor specializing in artificial intelligence, Juan Manuel Corchado. According to the University of Salamanca's
China, Russia
On September 2, 2025, Russia's TASS news agency and China's state Xinhua News Agency signed a cooperation strategy for 2026–2030 in Beijing, on the sidelines of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China for the
China, Hong Kong, Malawi, Malaysia
On May 15, 2026, Huang Weijian (黃偉健), director of the international communication center of Hong Kong-based Gonggong News Agency (共工新聞社), attended a cross-border and overseas media forum held at the ICC Trade Centre (ICC環貿大廈) in Guangzhou. Huang delivered a keynote address titled "Rooted in Hong Kong, Connected to the World, Promoting the International Dissemination of Chinese Culture" (立足香港 聯通全球 推動中華文化國際傳播), in which he described the agency's mandate using the CCP-sanctioned formulation "telling China's story well, spreading China's voice" (講好中國故事、傳播中國聲音), and invoked Hong Kong's role as a platform "backed by the motherland, connected to the world" (背靠祖國、聯通世界). During the event, the agen…
Greece
On October 30, 2023, Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), president of China Media Group (CMG), signed a memorandum with Dimitris Melissanidis, owner of the financial newspaper Naftemporiki. The Chinese and Greek partners agreed, according to a release from CMP, to cooperate in international news reporting, finance, and joint production of economic news. The signing of the agreement happened on the sidelines of a CMG-hosted China-Greec…
