Chinese It Companies Under U.S.-CHINA Trade War: A Computational Political Communication Perspective

Abstract

Computational political communication, based on big data analytics of social media texts, provides a paradigm for understanding the public's view of and engagement with political events worldwide. This study reviews previous efforts by social and data scientists and offers a demo to show the potential of computational political communication. To characterize online political communication dynamics surrounding U.S.-China tensions and gain a better understanding of the U.S.-China power struggle, a vast amount of user-generated Twitter data is compiled from March 2020 to March 2021 globally. Chinese IT giants (Huawei, Tencent, and ByteDance) and major English-speaking countries (the United States,