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Division of Chinese opinion on Russia-Ukraine War: Analyzing Key Actors’ Strategic Framing on Weibo

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  • Wenting Sun

    (Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China)

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Is strategic framing in authoritarian regimes fully under the control of the government? How could opinions on the Russia-Ukraine war of Chinese key actors differentiate from each other? Based on strategic framing theory, we use Structural Topic Models (STM) and a computational corpus-based approach to conducting a discourse analysis of 576 blogs produced by Chinese media outlets and opinion leaders on Weibo, the most popular social media platform in China. We argue that the strategic framing of private media is internally linked and influenced by state media in terms of topic distribution, topic trending, and position. However, the neutral position of the state is designedly to give space for private media to challenge the dominant frame of the state, which reflects an actively weakening control over the media ecosystem in China.

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  • Wenting Sun, 2022. "Division of Chinese opinion on Russia-Ukraine War: Analyzing Key Actors’ Strategic Framing on Weibo," European Journal of Law and Political Science, European Open Science, vol. 1(5), pages 48-56, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:politi:v:1:y:2022:i:5:id:8045
    DOI: 10.24018/ejpolitics.2022.1.5.45
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