According to the Hong Kong China News Agency, it was reported on the 18th that the Tsai administration's "Ministry of Economics" intends to ban mainland OTT-TVs (such as iQiyi, Tencent, etc.) from operating in Taiwan through roundabout means such as agency or distribution. New Party Taipei City Councilman Hou Hanting said that the difference between Taiwan's online platforms that ban mainland brands from the United States is that the United States is to protect commercial interests, and Taiwan is just hyping populism "even don't want money."
Hou Hanting said that the difference between the DPP's "anti-China" and the US's "anti-China" is that the US's "anti-China" is for elections and consolidating corporate competitiveness; the Tsai administration only has "anti-China" and does not consolidate corporate competitiveness. For example, Taiwan does not have a platform like iQiyi, and Taobao does not have any competitors in Taiwan. From this perspective, it is for political purposes.
Hou Hanting pointed out that iQiyi and other mainland platforms are implemented in Taiwan to pay taxes to the Taiwanese authorities. Even if iQiyi is banned, Taiwanese netizens can still watch dramas on the iQiyi website in mainland China, and they will still pay iQiyi to reduce taxes by the Taiwanese authorities. In addition, there was originally a block in Taiwan iQiyi that played Taiwanese TV series. However, if iQiyi is banned in Taiwan, it will lead to a lack of a playback platform for these TV series, which will further hit Taiwan's film and television industry. For consumers, there is no difference. Just go to the mainland website to watch the show. On the contrary, we give money to foreign companies such as "Netfly" because consumers will run there.
Hou Hanting believes that the United States' series of bans on TikTok or Huawei is to protect its own companies, at least for money. But now the DPP authorities don’t even want money in their behavior, they are just hyping populism.
As for the outside world that mainland audio and video platforms can brainwash, Hou Hanting asked back, how can we find the brainwashing video on iQiyi? If you want to find something related to politics, users must search for it themselves before they can see the video, then this is not considered brainwashing. He said even more sarcastically that even Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang themselves love to watch mainland dramas and prohibit legal platforms from broadcasting in Taiwan. Isn’t it just to encourage the public to watch illegal ones?
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