ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Taiwan and Taiwan-related issues were depicted in the Asian editions of two American weekly news magazines, Time and Newsweek, between 1990 and 2018. So far I have discussed how the United States and other Western countries prefer a multilateral relationality in which all states share the same rules, while countries like China prefer a bilateral relationality that tends toward inconsistent decisions and policies. As a country influenced by both China and the United States, Taiwan has resisted the former’s imposition of a specific type of relationality while copying the type favored by the United States and regularly promoted by the American press. Further, images and photos that appear in Time and Newsweek often portray China in a negative light, which offers strong justification to their readers for Taiwan’s opposition to China and the Chinese government. This puts Taiwan in the interesting position of emphasizing its occidental characteristics at the same time it rejects a Sinicized appearance.
