Framing the US-China trade war : a content analysis of news frames used in the United States and Chinese media
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[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This current study explored a comparative analysis of how the United States and China media framed the US-China trade war. The United States and China media have the tendency to report the trade disputes from a completely different angle. A mix-method approach of quantitative content analysis was employed to examine the news frames and story valence in 225 articles from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, China Daily, and People's Daily. In addition, this study attempted to examine how the U.S. and China attribute responsibility of the trade disputes. Framing analysis has been used to investigate the international political crisis, but little research has been done on the trade frictions between the two largest countries in the world. The result showed conflict was the dominant generic frame in the US stories while the responsibility frame was most prevalent in the Chinese articles. The evenly distributed story valence in the U.S. stories indicated the existence of market logic. The American articles justified the tarif policy by emphasizing China's unfair trade practices and structural issues. By contrast, China media blamed trade confrontation by criticizing the U.S. unilateralism tarif policy. This study contributes to the framing pool of transnational economic conflict (including generic frames and issue-specific frames) and contextualization of results within the diplomatic relations and media system background.
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