The Chinese Communist Party's four means to bribe Taiwan media
Epoch Times
Date: July 28, 2019
By: Epoch Times Staff
A huge crowd gathered on June 23 in front of the Taiwan presidential palace on Ketagalan Boulevard, attending a “reject the communist media, protect Taiwan’s democracy” event. (The Epoch Times)MORE
The Communist Party’s infiltration into Taiwanese media, which is at once both secretive and open, can be broadly divided into four categories. Among them, the most threatening is to construct an information supply chain through PR companies’ united front business for Taiwanese media.
Reporters Without Borders, an international NGO, has released its 2019 ranking of press freedom, ranking Taiwan as having the second best press freedom in Asia only after South Korea. In recent years however, taking advantage of Taiwan’s press freedom, the CCP has influenced the direction of media coverage in Taiwan through various channels, thus affecting the public perception of the CCP regime among Taiwanese residents.
The ways of the CCP’s infiltration can be divided into four categories. In addition to the well-known methods of bribing media with advertisements and inviting journalists to visit China, the CCP has also used PR companies in recent years to comprehensively influence Taiwan media and strengthen the scale of its united front work. It also controlled channels in Taiwan’s public entities through special means to directly influence the people. [FULL STORY]
