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Tajikistan
The Republic of Tajikistan is a Central Asian state that gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. China and Tajikistan established diplomatic relations on January 4, 1992, and the relationship has been upgraded over time, reaching a "comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership" during Chinese leader
Russia
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
Brazil
Brazil, formally the Federative Republic of Brazil, is South America's largest state, governed under a constitution promulgated in 1988. China and Brazil established diplomatic relations on August 15, 1974, and Brazil became the first Latin American country to enter a "comprehensive strategic partnership" with Beijing. Media ties run through Brazil's state broadcaster: Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) signed a…
Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Republic, a Central Asian state that gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, adopted a parliamentary system after revolutions in 2005 and 2010, but has concentrated power in the presidency since 2021 under Sadyr Japarov, whose government Freedom House says has used courts and extralegal pressure against critics. Relations with China were elevated to a "comprehensive strategic partnership for a new era" in 2025. Media cooperation has been formalized through direct state-agency ties: during a June 2025 summit in Astana, Kyrgyzstan's Kabar state news agency and China's Xinhua
Venezuela
Venezuela, renamed the "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" from the previous "Republic of Venezuela" under its 1999 constitution following a power grab by the newly elected President Hugo Chávez, has cultivated one of Latin America's closest political relationships with Beijing, elevated to an "all-weather strategic partnership" in 2023. Following a
Lesotho
Lesotho, a constitutional monarchy landlocked within South Africa, gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966. China and Lesotho restored diplomatic relations in 1993, and cooperation has since spanned infrastructure, health and media. In November 2013, China's press and broadcast regulator and Lesotho National Broadcasting Services signed a license agreement. More recently, Lesotho's Foreign Affairs Minister Limpho Tau signed WAICO's founding agreement on Lesotho's b…
Russia
Rossiya Segodnya (今日俄羅斯國際通訊社) is a Russian state media group established after Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree on December 9, 2013, ordering the liquidation of the state news agency RIA Novosti and the state broadcaster Voice of Russia and folding their staff and assets into the new entity. RIA Novosti itself traced its lineage to the Soviet Information Bureau, founded in 1941, though Rossiya Segodnya was created as a distinct entity by the 2013 decree, not a c…
Cameroon
Cameroon, a Central African state formed by the 1961 reunification of former French and British trust territories, established diplomatic relations with China in 1971. President Paul Biya, still in power at the time of this entry in July 2026, has ruled Cameroon since 1982, maintaining power through what the organization Freedom House has described as rigged elections, patronage and restrictions on the press and opposition parties. Ties with China were elevated to a "comprehensive strategic partn…
Russia
MTS (Mobile TeleSystems) is Russia's largest mobile operator, with more than 86 million mobile subscribers across Russia and Belarus. The company was founded on October 28, 1993, as a joint venture between the Moscow City Telephone Network, Deutsche Telekom (through its DeTeMobil subsidiary), Siemens, and several smaller Russian shareholders. MTS is majority-owned by Sistema, Russia's largest publicly traded diversified holding company. The core telecommuni…
Republic of Congo
The Republic of the Congo, a Central African state also known as Congo-Brazzaville, has (as of the writing of this entry in July 2026) been ruled by the presidency of Denis Sassou Nguesso for more than 40 years. Freedom House has cited severe repression of the opposition and credible, recurring corruption allegations against Nguesso's family. Congo-Brazzaville established diplomatic relations with China in 1964, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi…
Russia
ON Media (known until November 25, 2025 as MTS Media) is a Russian entertainment holding created in February 2024 to consolidate the entertainment businesses of the digital ecosystem operated by MTS (Mobile TeleSystems), Russia's largest mobile operator. The holding includes the KION streaming platform, the KIONFILM studio, the MTS Music streaming service, the Строки (Stroki) book service, the MTS Label record company, and the MTS Live events and ticketing division. ON Media briefly operated under a broader non-telecom holding structure called Erion, itself a late-2025 rebrand of what had been known as "MTS Ecosystem," though that holding structure was repor…
China, Russia
On April 7, 2026, the International Civil Diplomacy Research Center (國際民間外交研究中心) at Qingdao Binhai University, a private university in Shandong province, signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Russian outlet Dragon Newspaper, according to a press release from the university. The agreement, signed during a visit by Dragon Newspaper president Li Shuangjie (李雙傑), covers cultural exchange, academic research, and youth employment services aimed at what the university called strengthening "people-to-people bonds" (民心相通) between China and Russia. Dragon N…
China
On February 28, 2024, the Heilongjiang Northeast Asia International Communication Center (黑龍江東北亞國際傳播中心) launched in Harbin, as part of a nationwide strategy under Xi Jinping to invigorate "external propaganda" (外宣) through greater provincial and city-level involvement. The center was jointly established by the Heilongjiang Daily Press Group (黑龍江日報報業集團), Ta Kung Net (大公網), a Hong Kong news portal operated by the Ta Kung Wen Wei Media Group, and the government of Heihe, a Heilongjiang …
Russia
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 c…
China
Heilongjiang Daily Press Group (黑龍江日報報業集團) is the largest newspaper conglomerate in Heilongjiang province, built around its flagship paper, Heilongjiang Daily (黑龍江日報), the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party's Heilongjiang Provincial Committee. The paper was founded on December 1, 1945, in Bei'an through the merger of several wartime provincial newspapers, according to the group's official history. China's Central Propaganda Department approved formation of the press group on June 14, 2002, and the former State Press and Publication Administration approved it on June 20…
China
The government of Heihe (黑河市人民政府) is the municipal administration of Heihe, a prefecture-level city in northern Heilongjiang province on China's border with Russia. The city was established on February 8, 1993, when the State Council dissolved Heihe Prefecture (黑河地區) and reconstituted it as a prefecture-level city, according to the Heihe city government's own historical account. Heihe sits across the Amur River from Blagoveshchensk, the capital of Russia's Amur Oblast, and is promoted by Chinese authorities as the…
China
The Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government (黑龍江省人民政府) serves as the executive administrative authority of Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, headquartered in Harbin. The province reached its current boundaries and capital arrangement in August 1954, when the former Heilongjiang and Songjiang provinces were merged following a June 1954 decree from China's Central People's Government, according to the provincial government's own historical account. As a provincial-level government under China's State Council, it oversees economic development, public administration, a…
China
Qingdao Binhai University (青島濱海學院) is a private university in Qingdao's West Coast New Area, Shandong province. Founded in 1992, it became one of Shandong's first two private institutions authorized to grant bachelor's degrees in 2005, according to the university's own profile. The university reports approximately 24,000 full-time students and around 200 international students studying on campus annually, with a cumulative total of more than 2,000 long-term international students from nearly 30 countries over its history. It maintains partnerships with more than 140 universities and research instituti…
France
On June 17, 2026, UNESCO's Information for All Programme, the China Foundation for Human Rights Development (中国人权发展基金会), a nominally independent charity whose governing charter names the Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department as its supervising authority, and Communication University of China (中国传媒大学) jointly held a symposium on accessible information and cultural rights at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The event corresponded with China's release of i…
France
On June 16, 2026, a Communication University of China (中国传媒大学) delegation led by deputy Party secretary Zheng Peng (郑鹏) signed a cooperation memorandum with ISCOM (Institut Supérieur de Communication), a private communication and advertising school in Paris marking its 40th anniversary this year. The agreement was signed with Caroline Grassaud, who became director of ISCOM Paris in 2023. According to the C…
