Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) is a Taiwan-based media conglomerate established in 2009 following the acquisition of the China Times Group (中國時報集團) by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團), a food and beverage company whose founder and chairman, Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), derives the majority of his business revenue from mainland China. The acquisition, completed in November 2008 for approximately NT$20.4 billion, gave Want Want control of the China Times newspaper and television channels CTV and CTiTV. Freedom House has identified the group as a prominent example of Beijing wielding influence in Taiwan by co-opting local business elites with commercial interests in China, noting that its outlets carry pro-Beijing content and have reduced coverage of human rights issues in China under Tsai’s ownership. A peer-reviewed study in the American Political Science Review found that under Tsai’s ownership the group’s outlets are affiliated with the PRC-led Belt and Road News Alliance and that media scholars and former employees report the organization receives editorial directives from the PRC’s Taiwan Affairs Office. In 2014, Tsai led a delegation to meet Xinhua News Agency (新華社) president Li Congjun (李從軍), following which the two organizations signed a Strategic Cooperation Memorandum (戰略合作備忘錄). In 2019 the Financial Times reported that journalists at China Times and CTiTV said Taiwan Affairs Office officials “call every day” to shape coverage; Want Want sued the Financial Times, its reporter, and Taiwan’s Central News Agency for defamation, though prosecutors ultimately dropped the cases. CTiTV’s broadcast license was not renewed by Taiwan’s National Communications Commission on November 18, 2020, citing repeated violations of regulations and failure of internal control mechanisms; the channel went off air on December 11, 2020.