Interesting article on just how China commercial ties pave the way for Chinese state cooption of foreign media into self-censorship — Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42@cornell.edu>
Huang, Jaw-Nian. “The China Factor in Taiwan’s Media: Outsourcing Chinese Censorship Abroad.” China Perspectives [quarterly journal of the CEFC (French Center for Research on Contemporary China) in Hong Kong] no. 3 (2017): 27-36.
http://www.cefc.com.hk/issue/china-perspectives-20173/
ABSTRACT: To investigate how the Chinese government extends its influence to manipulate extra-jurisdictional media, this case study investigates Taiwan’s experience. It suggests that as Taiwanese media companies become embedded in the Chinese capital, advertising, and circulation markets, the Chinese authorities increase their ability to co-opt them with various economic incentives and threats, leading to self-censorship and biased news in favour of China. Using process tracing as the principal method, and archives, interviews, and secondary literature as principal data sources, the study supports the transferability of the “commercialisation of censorship” beyond China. Liberal states around China must design institutions protecting the media from inappropriate intervention by both domestic and foreign political and economic forces.
KEYWORDS: China Factor, Commercialisation of Censorship, Media, Self-censorship, Taiwan.
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This article also published in French as “Le facteur Chine dans les médias taîwanais: externaliser la censure chinoise à l’étranger,” Perspectives chinoises 2017, issue no.3 (No. 140), 31-41.