In this conclusion, I will attempt to embed the findings of this book into a global history of news circulation and newspapers. My attempt will necessarily be incomplete. Some easily retrievable data are brought together, for example, on the earliest Western-style newspaper printing in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British and French Colonial North America, in Spanish and Portuguese South America, and in Dutch Indonesia. In addition, I will briefly summarize the Chinese history of the so-called Peking court gazettes that have existed since the Tang period – of which original copies are extant, but only since the eighteenth century. The threefold scheme from the introduction is used to concentrate, first, on distinct transport, reproduction, and storage media, which were combined and used in the aforementioned world regions and in various periods. The Chinese case is compared to India and Europe by stressing the apparently (more) mono-central versus two polycentral (sub)continents with respect to the political structure. The Indian Mughal news(letter) communication system, as an example of a “global renaissance,” seems to have been comparable to its European counterpart with regard to that polycentrality and with regard to the form of event-focused narrative news, though the more state-centered organization seems closer to the Chinese model. The Chinese court gazette was different also regarding the level of content and its functions, whereby the term Peking gazette, first used by Jesuit missionaries, may be a faux ami, or false friend, in comparison to market- and event-driven Western newspapers. The Indian case can be generally said to have been negotiating its place somewhere in the middle between these two. The Western model had its own terms and times of diffusion and reception, reaching most parts of the world during the eighteenth and at the turn of the nineteenth century. This book’s contribution is to show the essential role of merchants and trading companies in news circulation and how some hundred years earlier they had started to feed a growing demand for this particular form of news reception and production – and that it was being located and established above all in Asia within contexts of preexisting forms of news circulation that remained, for a long time, closed off from one another.