ABSTRACT

This book focuses on China’s media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China’s media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts. Including detailed analyses of many cases, it highlights the complex, fluid and dynamic relationship between media and conflict, and discusses how this both exemplifies and also affects China’s relations with the outside world. In addition, in contrast to most existing studies of mediatized conflict in the digital age, it provides a very valuable non-Western perspective.

chapter 2|19 pages

Strategy framing of international conflicts

A multi-dimensional framework for transnational comparative content analysis

chapter 3|13 pages

Media type and framing of the Sino–US Trade War

An analysis of articles from party and nonparty news organisations in China

chapter 4|17 pages

Soft power clashes? China in platform geopolitics

Global aspirations and political struggles

chapter 6|18 pages

The politics of remembering

Commemorating the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in an era of China–US rivalry

chapter 7|19 pages

The domain of the State

Interpreting the 2012 Senkaku/Diaoyu islands disputes at liberal-oriented Chinese commercial newspapers

chapter 8|18 pages

How is NATO viewed in China?

NATO's strategic communication and perceptions of Zhihu users

chapter 9|19 pages

Indian media's China dilemma

Sino–India 2020 face-off through the lens of Indian press: analysis of editorials

chapter 12|18 pages

Reimagining Western media portrayals of China

US and Ghanaian coverage of China's COVID-19 response