OP came up with a flawed title, though the article is good. It exposes some of the leverage that the CCP has on US mainstream media, and also linked to an interesting in-depth report out of Australia:  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is strengthening its influence by co-opting representatives of ethnic minority groups, religious movements, and business, science and political groups. It claims the right to speak on behalf of those groups and uses them to claim legitimacy. ... The united front system’s reach beyond the borders of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—such as into foreign political parties, diaspora communities and multinational corporations—is an exportation of the CCP’s political system. This undermines social cohesion, exacerbates racial tension, influences politics, harms media integrity, facilitates espionage, and increases unsupervised technology transfer.  On a side note, corporate ownership is not a mutually exclusive concept. As in nature, it's possible for more than one parasite to feed off the same host.