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El Triangle is a Catalan-language weekly newspaper based in Barcelona, founded in January 1990. It describes itself as prioritizing "investigative journalism and analysis." The weekly newspaper has both a print edition and a bilingual (Catalan and Spanish) website, with an active presence on social media platforms including X and Facebook. The publication displays the lo…
Spain
El Periódico de España is a daily publication launched on October 12, 2021. It covers politics, economics, international affairs, sports, and entertainment, and was conceived as an alternative to Madrid-centric national dailies, with the willingness to offer a more regionally diverse point of view. The publication features regional editions with local news from across Spain. Initially published…
Spain
The Chinese Consulate General in Barcelona (中华人民共和国驻巴塞罗那总领事馆) is China's only consulate in Spain, opened in Barcelona's centrally located Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. Its consular district covers the four provinces of the Catalonia autonomous community: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Operating under the supervision of the Chinese Embassy in Madrid, the consulate provides visa and passport services, consular protection for Chinese nationals, and promotes economic, cultural, and educational ties between China and Catalonia. The Consulate has been actively engaged in outreach activities across Catalonia, including
Spain
On February 26, 2025, Chinese Ambassador to Spain Yao Jing (姚敬) published an article in the digital newspaper El Periódico de España titled "There Is No Room for Ambiguity in UN General Assembly Resolution 2758." In the article, he argued that UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 — which transferred China's seat in the United Nations from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People's Republic of China in October 1971 — settled Taiwan's status as part of China. Not surprisingly, Yao’s argument perfectly mirrored the Chinese Communist Party's
China, Spain
In August 2025, 26 Spanish journalists and analysts traveled to Beijing for a ten-day training course on China, organized by the China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), a state media organization established in 1949 and directly under the CCP's Central Propaganda Department. The course was co-sponsored by the China International Development Cooperation Agency (國家國際發展合作署), Beijing's foreign aid body under the State Council,
Spain
On May 12, 2016, He Ping (何平), then editor-in-chief of China's state-run Xinhua News Agency (新華通訊社), met with José Antonio Vera, then president of Spain's Agencia EFE (埃菲通訊社), in Madrid. He Ping called for deeper cooperation and said Xinhua should serve as a "bridge" between the two countries' populations — language characteristic of the CCP's framing of state media as instruments of public diplomacy rather tha…
Spain
On May 13, 2025, El Triangle, a Catalan magazine, published an op-ed by Meng Yuhong (孟宇宏), China's consul general in Barcelona, titled “The one-China principle cannot be questioned, and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 cannot be challenged.” In the article, the consul wrote that the”One China Principle” (Beijing's position that Taiwan is part…
China, Spain
On January 30, 2009, Spain's public broadcaster, Spanish Radio and Television Corporation (RTVE) and China Central Television (CCTV) signed a cooperation agreement during former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's (溫家寶) official visit to Spain. Signed by then RTVE
China, Spain
On September 5, 2024, Fu Hua (傅華), the president of China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency, met with Miguel Ángel Oliver, president of Spain's state-owned agency Agencia EFE, in Beijing. As the two counterparts met, Fu stressed that the agencies have cooperated since the 1970s, though the earliest documented contact appears to date back to 2015. Fu expressed interest in expanded exchanges in news content, personnel, and new media. Oliver,
China
The 25th Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作組織), convening in Tianjin on August 31–September 1, 2025, adopted the Tianjin Declaration (天津宣言) alongside a dedicated "Statement on Further Deepening International Cooperation in Artificial Intelligence" (上海合作組織成員國元首理事會關於進一步深化人工智能國際合作的聲明) — one of five thematic statements issued at the summit. Attended by more than 20 heads of state including Chines…
Hungary
On February 26, 2025, Duna Médiaszolgáltató (DMSZ) and Hunan Satellite Television (湖南衛視) signed a memorandum of cooperation in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, covering a range of media co-productions and exchanges. According to a Hunan Broadcasting press release, the memorandum was signed by a DMSZ executive and Song Dian (宋點), director of Hunan Satellite Television, in the presence of the Hungarian Consul General in Chongqing and Hunan Broadcasting chairman Gong Zhengwen (龔政文). The agreement covers co-production of China-related documentaries and food programs, cultural exchanges, and talent training. The deal builds on a July 2023 cooperat…
China
Hunan Broadcasting System (湖南廣播電視台) is a state-owned media conglomerate headquartered in Changsha, Hunan Province, operating under the Propaganda Office of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It was established on June 28, 2010, through a restructuring of the former Hunan Radio, Film and Television Group. The group operates multiple television channels and radio frequencies, and its most prominent outlet, Hunan Television (湖南衛視), is widely regarded as China's second-most-watched chann…
Japan
The Japan Business Federation, known as Keidanren, is a powerful corporate membership federation that is one of Japan's three major economic organizations, formed in May 2002 through the merger of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (established 1946) and the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations. According to its own description, as of 2025, the federation comprises 574 leading Japanese companies, 106 national industry associations, and regional economic organizations covering all 47 prefectures. The Federati…
Japan
The Duan Press was founded in 1996 in Tokyo by Duan Yuezhong (段躍中), also known as “Yakuchū Dan,” who previously worked at China Youth Daily (中國青年報), the official newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China. Duan arrived in Japan in 1991 and later established the press, which describes itself as promoting "mutual understanding" between the peoples of China and Japan, language that is often used by publications close to the Party. It publishes China-themed books in Japanese, and
Hungary
Duna Médiaszolgáltató (DMSZ) is Hungary's sole public service broadcaster, established on July 1, 2015, and headquartered in Budapest. While DMSZ carries the formal designation of a public service broadcaster, analysts describe it as a shell entity under effective government control, whose CEO holds no functional autonomy. The network has been strongly criticized within the EU in recent years as a pro-g…
Japan
The Keizai Koho Center (KKC), also known as the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, was established in 1978 as an affiliate of Keidanren (日本經濟團體連合會), a corporate membership federation that is one of Japan's three major economic organizations. KKC describes itself as a "platform" for the Japanese business community to engage with domestic and international stakeholders, conducting programs through which some 700 companies and 40 industry associations seek to develop ties with lawmakers, government officials, sc…
China
The Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Forum (中国—上海合作组织人工智能合作论坛) of the 2025 China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作組織) convened in Tianjin on May 29, 2025, under the theme "Intelligence Converges in China, Wisdom Benefits SCO" (智汇中国，慧聚上合). Co-hosted by China's National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会), or NDRC, a ministerial-level department that coordinates the development policies of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee, and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, the forum brought together ministerial-level repr…
China
The Tianjin Municipal People's Government (天津市人民政府) is the chief administrative body of Tianjin, a directly administered municipality under the central government of the People's Republic of China. It oversees the day-to-day governance of the municipality, including economic planning, public services, urban development, and the implementation of national policy at the local level. As with all levels of government in China, the Municipal People's Government operates subordinate to and under the leadership of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨天津市委員會), which sets the political direction and holds ultimate authority over…
France
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16, 1945, in London, with its Constitution grounded in the conviction that "peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind." Headquartered in Paris, UNESCO works across 194 member states to strengthen international cooperation in education, science, culture, and information. The organization sets standards, produces tools, and develops knowledge to address glob…
China, Taiwan
The Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit (第四屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing on May 10, 2019, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). Nearly seventy Taiwan media organizations sent representatives, led by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明). CPPCC chairman and Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang (汪洋) received the Taiwan delegation in a closed-door session, directing those present that achieving peaceful unification and one country two systems required the efforts of media colleagues, and mocking Taiwan's government as unable to guarantee its situation two years hence. Wang Yang further stated that Taiwan inde…
