China’s belt and road initiative in Russian media: politics of narratives, images, and metaphors

Kuteleva, Anna; Vasiliev, Dmitrii

doi:10.1080/15387216.2020.1833228

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“…Yang & van Gorp, 2021;Vila Seoane, 2023;Zhang & Wu, 2017). In contrast, Kuteleva and Vasiliev (2021) found that Russian media reported on the BRI positively, reproducing the official state narrative of its contributions to Sino-Russian relations. The work by Yang and van Gorp is particularly relevant to the present research since it followed a similar methodological approach.…”

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Framing China: The Belt and Road Initiative in Argentine national media outlets

Vila-Seoane

2023

Communication & Society

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This article studies how Argentine national media outlets reported on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) between 2013 and February 2022 (this covers the period from the launch of the BRI to Argentina’s official accession to the initiative). Based on a framing analysis of 272 articles, this study argues that national media outlets tend to reproduce two frames about the BRI: they either present it as an opportunity or as a threat. The balance between them matters when attempting to understand how media organisations shape citizens’ perceptions of China and the BRI. In the case of Argentina, even though its political and economic relations with China have become closer, reports on the BRI were quite polarised. Indeed, national media outlets’ portrayal of the BRI as an opportunity has been slightly more prevalent than negative portrayal (41% vs. 35%). However, national media firms covered the BRI in different ways. Some organisations conveyed largely positive frames, some chiefly presented negative ones, and others were more balanced. The specific editorial lines of the newspapers and their affinities to national political alliances explain these different patterns. Furthermore, although articles citing Western sources were indeed more negative about the BRI, many of the op-eds and reports criticising the BRI were produced by Argentine journalists and other local actors. Thus, Chinese academics exaggerate Western media sources’ influence on Argentina’s national media critical coverage of China while overlooking reasonable concerns about the impacts of Chinese projects.

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Framing China: The Belt and Road Initiative in Argentine national media outlets

Vila-Seoane

2023

Communication & Society

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“…Though the estimated level of China's integration in the world trade is not very high 12 due to some aspects of the BRI member's economic development, it is a factor that boosts the use of RMB as a regional means of payment. As BRI is a long-term project of "China-centered economic integration" [Kuteleva,Vasiliev 2020:1], the overall level of Chinese integration can hardly be measured at the moment. Such ambitious SRF's and CIC's actions as taking part in Saudi Aramco IPO (2019) 13 and the launch of Chinese oil futures contracts in Shanghai INE (2018) 14 tell that there is enormous potential in the Belt and Road and a wish to spread internationally.…”

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Internationalization of Renminbi as a Function of China’s Foreign Exchange Policy

Chernilevskaya

2021

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Politol.

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This article discusses the prospects of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) to expand its sphere of influence and become a full-scale reserve world currency. The methods used in the article are retrospective analysis and graphic analysis. The work is divided into three sections. The first section provides a broad overview of modern reserve currencies. The second part characterizes RMBs shaping as a reserve currency, as well as inner and outer factors that influence its status. The third section includes information about RMBs current status and its perspectives for being a reserve currency in the future. The article argues that currently RMB has already become a regional reserve currency in Asia-Pacific. Chinese government continues to make steps towards international expansion of RMB, yet these steps cannot make RMB one of the leading world currencies together with USD and EUR in the nearest decade.

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“…Pitlo and Karambelkar (2015) did a study on India's Perception and Response to China's "One Belt, Y. Y. Pan One Road" Initiative through content analysis. Kuteleva & Vasiliev (2020) explores Russia's perception of "Belt and Road" Initiative by examining the reports of the "Belt and Road" Initiative in Russia's major newspapers between 2013 and 2019 and traces the visibility of different topics and maps the shifts in its focus over these years.…”

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Changes in African Mainstream Media’s Perception of China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

Pan¹

2021

OJML

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This paper applies the corpus-based critical discourse analysis to an investigation into diachronic changes in African mainstream media's perception of China's "Belt and Road" initiative. It built a corpus of Belt-and-Road-Initiative-related reports in African mainstream media AllAfrica from September 2013 to December 2020, and divided the corpus into three sub-corpora. Then, it made a critical analysis of the media discourses from the perspectives of key words, collocation and concordance lines. The analysis reveals that a bulk of explicit positive discourses indicating appreciation, recognition and active participation have been constructed in the reports of three stages, presenting that "Belt and Road" initiative promotes China-Africa and global economic development, but it also suggests a change of stance from full approval to implicit query and explicit criticism. Through the analysis from discursive and social practice, it is found that the reasons for the overall perception and diachronic changes are the long history and challenges of China-Africa cooperation as well as the influence of western media.

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China’s belt and road initiative in Russian media: politics of narratives, images, and metaphors

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Framing China: The Belt and Road Initiative in Argentine national media outlets

Framing China: The Belt and Road Initiative in Argentine national media outlets

Internationalization of Renminbi as a Function of China’s Foreign Exchange Policy

Changes in African Mainstream Media’s Perception of China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis

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