Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Associate Research Scientist, and his co-author Dr. Y.E. Yang authored “The ‘China Threat’ through the Lens of US Print Media: 1992-2006” in Journal of Contemporary China. Yang and Liu use content analysis to examine empirically how US print media portrays the ‘China Threat’. They classify the threats into three categories: political/ideological, economic, or military. They connect the media portrayals to military and economic developments in China and find the US media highly responsive to such changes. As for the more stable political/ideological divide between the nations, US media interest has declined. Yang and Liu also analyze whether literature on realism, agenda setting, and information processing can account for the observed media portrayals of China.
Article citation: Yang, Yi E. and Xinsheng Liu, X. 2012. “The ‘China Threat’ through the Lens of US Print Media: 1992-2006.” Journal of Contemporary China 21(76): 695-711. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2012.666838
