Taipei, Feb. 12 -- According to a Taiwan Information Environment Research Center report, comments by Taiwanese commentators on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok posts, are regularly used by media in China to spread unfavourable perceptions of Taiwan.

The 20 most quoted Taiwanese figures were in October and November of last year, which was the month before and following the US Presidential election, as reported by Taipei Times.

Chu is the head of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Hsu is a member of the KMT, Huang is currently the acting chairman of the Taiwan People's Party, and Ho is a member of the New Party Taipei City Councillor. The remaining sixteen are commentators according to Taipei Times.

According to the survey as cite...