CGTN Europe

CGTN — China Global Television Network — is the international arm of the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, restructured under this name in 2016. It publishes separate channels in English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian and has established regional production centres in London, Nairobi and Washington.

CGTN Europe is the organisation's London-based European service. China's foreign policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, the Chinese economy and China–Europe relations carry marked weight in its agenda.

The channel is funded by the Chinese state and carries the state's official account; it has been the subject of regulatory scrutiny in some countries for that reason, and readers should watch knowing it. Equally, for a reader who wants China's official position on a development from the source, it is first-hand.