China’s Global Influence: Post-COVID Prospects for Soft Power

Gill, Bates

doi:10.1080/0163660x.2020.1771041

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“…The Chinese case shows that the lack of counteracting narratives affects consumer perceptions, leaving room for misinformation around dominant topics and polarization in the digital ecosystem [99], in turn leading to increases in pro-moderation or pro-censorship views [100]. On the other hand, there is a general concern that censorship may delay information on emerging critical topics, and therefore potential countermeasures, such as in the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan [101,102]. Imposing restrictions, however, is not synonymous with effectiveness.…”

Section: Governmental Perspectivementioning

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Digital media and misinformation: An outlook on multidisciplinary strategies against manipulation

Caled

Silva

2021

J Comput Soc Sc

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This review discusses the dynamic mechanisms of misinformation creation and spreading used in social networks. It includes: (1) a conceptualization of misinformation and related terms, such as rumors and disinformation; (2) an analysis of the cognitive vulnerabilities that hinder the correction of the effects of an inaccurate narrative already assimilated; and (3) an interdisciplinary discussion on different strategies for coping with misinformation. The discussion encompasses journalistic, educational, governmental and computational viewpoints on the topic. The review also surveys how digital platforms handle misinformation and gives an outlook on opportunities to address it in light of the presented viewpoints.

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Section: Governmental Perspectivementioning

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Digital media and misinformation: An outlook on multidisciplinary strategies against manipulation

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Silva

2021

J Comput Soc Sc

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“…Sevilla Jr. (2020) contends that the geostrategic interests of Europe and the US (in their controlling of strategic goods of oil, gas and water routes) are now being approached by India and China through significant involvement that has intensified during the COVID-19 crisis. As well, Gill (2020) describes the geopolitical relationship between the US and China as being dire -COVID-19 has, 'injected an already-inflamed US-China relationship with new levels of ill will as each side blames the other for the disease's spread and struggles to spin global opinion in their favor' (Gill 2020, 97).…”

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The Contradictions of COVID-19 and the Persistence of Western Hegemony

Anisin

2021

Politikon

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Crises brought about by COVID-19 have provided us with a key set of observations about global power in an era where international relations scholars are close to coming to a consensus in acknowledging the decline of Western and specifically American hegemony. This paper adopts a decolonial approach to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on international politics. It argues that throughout much of the Western world, COVID-19 has marked one of the first unexpected encounters with death that populations have faced since World War II and the pre-poliomyelitis vaccine era. As a result, global health policies mandated by the WHO have been articulated in favour of the West. Statistical analysis of death tolls brought about by COVID-19, numerous other infectious diseases and viruses along with associated geographic patterns reveal that quarantine and lockdown policies were carried out at the expense and wellbeing of much of the developing world. Contrary to popular contemporary arguments that contend the international liberal order is in decline, the emergence of COVID-19 and subsequent global health policy responses have demonstrated that Western hegemony and soft power are still salient.

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“…Still others have claimed that while the U.S. response to the pandemic provided China with an excellent opportunity to assume a global leadership role, it failed because its narrative was too aggressive (Zhao, 2021). Meanwhile, it has been suggested that Chinese narratives were ultimately targeted at domestic rather than international audiences (Gill, 2020;Jacob, 2020;Verma, 2020).…”

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“…While much of this debate has fixated on Chinese activities, some studies have noted that U.S. leaders have also been spreading disinformation (Harris & Dong, 2020;Tisdall, 2020). They describe the narrative power struggle between the United States and China as a "blame game" (Gill, 2020;Ogden, 2020;Tyler & Liu, 2020), from which neither party is likely to emerge victoriously (Jaworsky & Qiaoan, 2021).…”

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The limitations of strategic narratives: The Sino-American struggle over the meaning of COVID-19

Hagström

Gustafsson

2021

Contemporary Security Policy

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Recent research has explored how the Sino-American narrative struggle around COVID-19 might affect power shift dynamics and world order. An underlying assumption is that states craft strategic narratives in attempts to gain international support for their understandings of reality. This article evaluates such claims taking a mixed-methods approach. It analyzes American and Chinese strategic narratives about the pandemic, and their global diffusion and resonance in regional states that are important to the U.S.-led world order: Australia, India, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. While the article confirms that strategic narratives remain a highly popular policy instrument, it argues that their efficacy appears limited. Overall, the five states in question either ignored the Sino-American narrative power battle by disseminating their own strategic narratives, or they engaged in "narrative hedging." Moreover, even China's narrative entrepreneurship was enabled and constrained by pre-existing master narratives integral to the current U.S.led world order.KEYWORDS China; COVID-19; power shift; strategic narratives; United States; world order As COVID-19 jolted the world in early 2020, various actors immediately began to spin narratives around it. They proposed competing accounts of causality, of heroes and villains, and of measures that ought to be adopted based on the lessons they drew. In this context, numerous references were made to an "infodemic," and to a narrative power struggle, in particular between the world's two most powerful states-the United States and China. Observers suggested that the narrative power struggle over the meaning of the pandemic could have implications for the future of world order and the ostensibly ongoing power shift from the United States to

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China’s Global Influence: Post-COVID Prospects for Soft Power

Cited by 41 publications

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Digital media and misinformation: An outlook on multidisciplinary strategies against manipulation

Digital media and misinformation: An outlook on multidisciplinary strategies against manipulation

The Contradictions of COVID-19 and the Persistence of Western Hegemony

The limitations of strategic narratives: The Sino-American struggle over the meaning of COVID-19

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