China's Communist Party is very sensitive to any content seen to jeopardize its grip on power, and regularly censors social media posts and movie scenes.

Many foreign companies have incurred its wrath for things like listing Taiwan as a separate country, or backing anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.

The Chinese market is very valuable as people there are spending more and more on international goods and travel.

Here's a list of foreign companies — from Dior to the NBA — who have groveled to China after offending it.

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Christian Dior apologized profusely to Chinese consumers Thursday, and made a promise to uphold the country's national sovereignty on Thursday, becoming in the process the latest Western company to grovel after offending China.

The French fashion house courted controversy on China's Weibo social platform after a video showed an employee displaying a map of China that didn't include Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory.

Dior's controversy came one week after the NBA lost all its Chinese sponsors after Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets tweeted his support for the Hong Kong protests, offending Chinese NBA fans, companies, and the country's government.

Both Dior and the NBA have found out what other Western brands have learned in recent years: China is a tricky country to do business in.

A worker removes a large poster of the NBA from a building in Shanghai on October 9, 2019. VCG/VCG via Getty Images

The ruling Communist Party is extremely sensitive to any content seen to jeopardize its grip on power, and regularly censors social media posts, movie scenes, and news coverage that may be used to criticize the government.

It has also attacked multiple foreign brands and companies for — in its opinion — getting involved in Chinese politics, misconstruing the country's borders, and aggravating Chinese citizens.

Read more: The NBA faces a billion-dollar crisis over one executive's tweet about Hong Kong. Here's why China is so hard for Western brands to break into.

Many brands have kowtowed to the Chinese government over these issues, which isn't surprising given the clout of Chinese consumers in global retail. Despite a slowing economy, mainland Chinese consumers spent 170 billion yuan ($23 billion) on luxury goods in 2018, according to Bain & Company. The number is set to grow.

Scroll down to see some of the Western companies that have incurred China's wrath — and how they caved in to the Communist Party.