That is pretty horrible that so many companies from outside can be pressured to behave outside of china, like changing how they describe Taiwan. But that's separate from social credit, and that's not new.
Try this on for size then. Cliff notes: school kids have their designs on a fake cow painted over, as not to offend the Chinese beef industry...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-09/childrens-cow-statue-d...
This is not likely to change, universities make too much money off foreign students. Australia is maybe in a more precarious position simply because of their geographic location and the resulting trade partners. (That isn't to say Australia is the only place this pressure is felt though.)
Some of them do, and I believe that's still the official position (so as to not anger the PRC), but they've been politically separate for so long that many Taiwanese believe they are a separate nation and have little desire for future political integration with the mainland [1]. IIRC, the current Taiwanese president is from a pro-independence [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Ing-wen#Cross-strait_rela...
Diplomatic negotiations can involve even the most absurd of things.
"[...] the violation was also recorded on the social credit system’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System."