Following Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, Chinese media have extensively focused on portraying the US as a destabilizing element of global security and peace. At the same time, one can sense an intensifying urgency in the discourse about national reunification, betraying Beijing’s attempts to use Pelosi’s visit as a pretext to create a “new normal”… Continue reading Chinese Media Watch: Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan breaks the status quo
Taiwan’s engagements with many Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries have been improving since the beginning of the decade. In attempting to increase its public diplomacy engagement in the CEE region, Taiwan might have a choice in a digital and multilingual news services project. The Confucius Institute (CI), a state-backed body that offers courses in… Continue reading Digital diplomacy for Taiwan’s next European engagements
China’s foreign policy discourse towards the US became slightly more positive in 2021 – the first time in six years. This is one of the main findings of the update of our Chinese MFA press conferences dataset that covers now the 2002-2021 period. The dataset is freely available via the Harvard Dataverse repository and was… Continue reading Chinese diplomats more positive about the US in 2021, shows MFA press conference analysis (dataset update)
A relic of the Cold War era thinking and a hostility tool used by the US – that is how NATO could be described based on just a few articles in the Chinese media. The Alliance is routinely blamed for various aspects of the current global situation. Unsurprisingly, in response to the Madrid summit’s list… Continue reading Chinese Media Watch: The changing focus on NATO as the primary instigator of “evil”
In early June 2022, Slovak parliamentarians visited Taiwan. Chinese media did not hesitate to comment. As the frequency of bilateral visits between Slovakia and Taiwan has increased, Slovakia has gradually gained a reputation in the Chinese media as a “troublemaker country” . To diminish the importance of the most recent visit by a Slovakian delegation… Continue reading Chinese Media Watch: Slovak delegation flew more than 8,000 kilometers to humiliate Taiwan
