Contents
Introduction: The U.S.–China Trade War as a Case Study of U.S.–China Relations, Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat
Part 1. Economic and International Contexts
The China Knot: A Brief History of U.S.–China Trade Relations Leading to the Trade War, Steven Beckman and Stephen J. Hartnett
China’s Foreign Direct Investment Expansion: News Coverage of U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission Reports, Hamilton Bean
National Images as Integrated Schemas: How Americans and Chinese Think about Each Other and the U.S.–China Trade War, Lars Willnat, Shuo Tang, Jian Shi, and Ning Zhan
Part 2. Media Coverage of the Trade War in the United States
U.S. Television News Coverage of the Trade War: Partisan vs. Nonpartisan Media, Rik Ray and Yanqin Lu
How Media Use and Perceptions of Chinese Immigrants and Mainland Chinese Affect Americans’ Attitudes toward the U.S.–China Trade War, Ruonan Zhang, Louisa Ha, and Nicky Chang Bi
How News Media Content and Fake News about the Trade War Are Shared on Twitter: A Topic Modeling and Content Analysis, Louisa Ha, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, and Yang Yang
Part 3. Media Coverage of the Trade War in China
How the Chinese News Media Present the U.S.–China Trade War, Peiqin Chen and Ke Guo
Comparing U.S. and Chinese Media Coverage of the U.S.–China Trade War: War and Peace Journalism Practice and the Foreign Policy Information Market Equilibrium Hypothesis, Louisa Ha, Yang Yang, Rik Ray, Frankline Matanji, Peiqin Chen, Ke Guo, and Nan Lyu
How Weibo Influencers and Ordinary Posters Responded to the U.S.–China Trade War, Louisa Ha, Peiqin Chen, Ke Guo, and Nan Lyu
Conclusion: The Roles of Professional and User-Generated Media in Shaping U.S.–China Relations in the Digital Age, Louisa Ha and Lars Willnat
Contributors
