ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a theoretical framework of the ‘transnational diffusion of Chinese Censorship’ to systematize the mechanisms through which the Chinese government extends its authoritarian influence on the extra-jurisdictional media. It argues that a media company outside China will exercise self-censorship on Chinese-sensitive topics when its country becomes economically dependent on China and when it becomes commercially tied with the Chinese market. China was eager to reinforce this structure of economic dependence by incorporating Taiwan into its international economic order. In correspondence with the asymmetric economic structure, an asymmetric information structure was also created across the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese government also incorporated Taiwanese media companies into the advertising market. The Chinese government also incorporated Taiwanese media companies in the capital market. The Chinese government also encouraged some Taiwanese capitalists basing business interests in China to purchase ownership of Taiwanese media companies.
