Contending Narratives of the International Order: US/Chinese Discursive Power and Its Effects on the UK

Li, Rex

doi:10.1353/apr.2019.0014

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“…Some scholars focus on the larger objectives shaping the bilateral discursive competition. In examining the divergent global narratives of the United States and China, Li (2019), for instance, argues that the United States communicates its leadership of and support for the liberal international order, whereas China, under Xi, communicates a desire to transform it to better reflect its positions and interests.…”

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Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa

Repnikova

Chen

2023

International Communication Gazette

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This article examines China–US competition for narratives by analyzing whether and how Chinese and American diplomats engage each other in routine diplomatic outreach to African audiences on Twitter. Drawing on case studies of Kenya and South Africa, our study uncovers “asymmetrical discursive competition”—Chinese diplomatic accounts selectively launch discursive attacks (both defensive and offensive) on the United States, while the US diplomatic accounts tend to ignore China. We further find that in invoking the United States, Chinese diplomats largely bypass Africa and African issues, and instead, focus on contesting larger claims about China's legitimacy.

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Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa

Repnikova

Chen

2023

International Communication Gazette

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Othering as mediated soft-power practice: Chinese diplomatic communication of discourse about China-US trade war through the British press

Li-ping

2023

Discourse, Context & Media

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Health Apartheid during covid-19: A Decolonial Critique of Racial Politics between Taiwan and the who

Lee

Kao

2022

Int. J. Taiwan Stud.

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While racism has spread rapidly as the covid-19 pandemic disrupted global health systems, this study focuses on the case of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African Director-General of the who, and his allegations of racism against Taiwan, which has been excluded from the who for decades. This study theorises ‘health apartheid’ as a conceptual framework to critically analyse three forces—global racial politics, imperial logics of global health, and state-centrism of international institutions—that relate to Taiwan’s exclusion in various ways. We argue that Tedros’s allegation was instrumentalised to overshadow the systemic, structural, and institutional racism reproduced by the who during the competition between Chinese and American hegemonies. This study shows that the pandemic exacerbates health apartheid against unrecognised nations, like Taiwan, when global solidarity is desperately needed. We call for a systematic transformation of the who to resist racist state-centrism and pursue a people-centred approach to global health governance.

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Contending Narratives of the International Order: US/Chinese Discursive Power and Its Effects on the UK

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Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa

Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa

Othering as mediated soft-power practice: Chinese diplomatic communication of discourse about China-US trade war through the British press

Health Apartheid during covid-19: A Decolonial Critique of Racial Politics between Taiwan and the who

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