Article
How US and Chinese Media Cover the US–China Trade Conflict: A Case Study of War and Peace Journalism Practice and the Foreign Policy Equilibrium Hypothesis
Negotiation and Conflict Management Research
(2020)
Abstract
This article examines the news coverage of a nonmilitary conflict: The
US–China trade conflict by major news media outlets in the USA and
China using the war and peace journalism framework. Role in the conflict
as initiator/responder, medium difference, the press role in each press
system, and partisanship of news media were hypothesized to affect the
war and peace journalism practice. Moreover, the trade conflict was
divided into three stages to test the applicability of the “foreign policy
market equilibrium hypothesis” by analyzing the changes in the uses of
sources and presence of competing frames over time. US news media
were found to employ more war journalism and less peace journalism
than their Chinese counterpart. They also had much lower coverage of
the conflict than their Chinese counterpart. Newspapers were more likely
to use war journalism than television. US partisan liberal media selectively
supported and opposed the US government trade policy.
Keywords
- US-China Trade War,
- Peace journalism,
- framing,
- foreign policy,
- international communication
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring April, 2020
DOI
10.1111/ncmr.12186
Citation Information
Louisa Ha. "How US and Chinese Media Cover the US–China Trade Conflict: A Case Study of War and Peace Journalism Practice and the Foreign Policy Equilibrium Hypothesis" Negotiation and Conflict Management Research (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/louisa_ha/50/