He, a Chinese academic in exile, presents information from a variety of sources to show how China is permeating media globally and affecting Chinese, or those of Chinese descent, throughout the world through media controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese organizations and institutions. “China began influencing Taiwan as early as the 1990s and even went through Singapore to buy out Taiwanese media organizations,” she said. However, “China knows that foreign media would never report China the way it wanted to be reported,” she wrote. “To correct this, the Chinese government had allotted 45 billion yuan [US$6.5 billion] in a campaign to influence, buy out or hold shares across major media outlets so they would have a voice,” she wrote. Using the Taiwanese independence issue as an example, she said: “Some Taiwanese media outlets have already become the mouthpiece of the CCP and are even worse than the People’s Daily.

Source: Taipei Times May 26, 2019 15:56 UTC