RIO DE JANEIRO. — Cooperation between Cuba and China also has the potential to expand in the field of media and contribute to the construction of a shared future between the two nations.
This was revealed at today's meeting between Fu Hua, president of the Xinhua news agency, and Marydé Fernández López, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and deputy head of its Ideological Department.
The meeting took place prior to the start of the BRICS Media and Think Tanks Forum, which will be held on Wednesday in this city.
Xinhua attaches great importance to coverage from Cuba, and from there it is dedicated to promoting traditional Chinese-Cuban friendship and mutual understanding between the two peoples, to tell the stories of the island in China and around the world, the executive of the Asian giant emphasized.
He thanked the Cuban media for their support and use of the agency's content, and expressed Xinhua's willingness to strengthen cooperation with them, for example, in the area of professional relations through people-to-people exchanges and technology training, in order to amplify their voice as representatives of the Global South.
Fernández López, meanwhile, discussed the opportunities opening up for Cuba as a partner of the BRICS countries and thanked the president of Xinhua for the invitation to this Media Forum within the bloc, to which the archipelago attaches great importance, as it does to other multilateral forums that strengthen South-South cooperation.
He highlighted that 2025 will mark 65 years of bilateral relations between Cuba and China, and that during this long period, Xinhua has accompanied the chronicle of the Revolution.
He affirmed that this forum, as well as the Belt and Road Initiative and other events organized by China in the context of media work, are spaces for learning from experiences and sharing technological tools that contribute to the effectiveness of combating media manipulation and breaking the siege of fake news with which the socialist projects of the two nations are attacked.
Both leaders agreed on the fundamental role of the media in consolidating the ideological political work of the two peoples, and therefore recognized that all possible professional exchange will contribute to this strategic goal.
Fernández López mentioned the particular interest in cooperation with Xinhua to promote the use of artificial intelligence in the media, as well as to expand collaboration in the monitoring and analysis of digital discourse in real time.
He invited Xinhua to join in promoting activities for the centenary of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz and, together with the Cuban media, to spread knowledge of the thinking and work of Comrade Xi Jinping.
At the meeting, a memorandum of understanding was signed between Xinhua and the Latin American news agency Prensa Latina, which was also officially accredited as a member of the joint collaboration mechanism that seeks to promote the Global South Media and Think Tanks Forum, promoted by the BRICS.
Xinhua—which employs some 13,000 people, has more than 200 offices around the world, and broadcasts 24 hours a day in 15 languages—is hosting the BRICS Media Forum, which will be held in Brazil, the nation that currently holds the bloc's pro tempore presidency.
