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Contextualizing Mediated Public Diplomacy: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese and U.S. TV News Coverage of Trump’s State Visit to China
- Author(s):
- Liang Pan (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Subject(s):
- International relations, Mass media--Study and teaching, Social sciences--Comparative method, Discourse analysis, Diplomatics, Communication in politics
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Public Diplomacy, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Comparative media studies, Political communication, Media studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/4b5s-zh04
- Abstract:
- U.S. President Donald Trump paid his first state visit to China in November 2017. Despite the two countries’ rugged relations, political elites from both sides had to reach expedient political congeniality for this high-stake diplo-matic event. The state visit represented the best-case scenario in which the two adversarial countries could mutually conduct mediated public diplomacy. This article critically examines and compares Chinese and U.S. TV news discourse on the state visit in the supra-textual, verbal-textual, and visual modes. Conventional research suggests that external-relational factors, such as power hierarchy, cultural and political difference between countries affect mediated public diplomacy most. However, this article finds that China and the U.S.’ domestic political-eco-nomic and societal-intuitional logics behind news production have a more definitive influence on the actualization of mediated public diplomacy. These distinct domestic logics defy the governments’ foreign policy and lead to asymmetrical and futile public diplomacy results even in the best-case scenario.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Center for European Dialogue and Cultural Diplomacy
- Pub. Date:
- December 31, 2020
- Journal:
- Journal of Global Politics and Current Diplomacy
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range:
- 5 - 24
- ISSN:
- 2344-6293
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Contextualizing Mediated Public Diplomacy: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese and U.S. TV News Coverage of Trump’s State Visit to China