Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak

Yang, Yifan; Chen, Xuechen

doi:10.1007/s11366-020-09697-1

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“…China's rhetoric against Australia is not a familiar diplomatic discourse but is instead highly emotional and defiant. The angry discourse aims to reinforce both the ruling party's legitimacy at home and China's reputation by denying Australia's identity-seeking behavior [73]. China's comments, including those made by the Global Times and the Chinese ambassador, have dealt a significant blow to Australia's attempts to portray itself as an active, autonomous and influential middle power.…”

Section: Australia's Assertiveness Anti-china Sentiment and Increase In Uncertaintymentioning

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The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19

Pan

Korolev

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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Australia-China relations have been relatively stable over the last decade. However, soon after the outbreak of COVID-19, Australia took an increasingly assertive stance toward China, one that is arguably even more assertive than those of its Western allies. What prompted Australia to adopt a tougher policy against China? This article argues that COVID-19 has brought significant uncertainty to the international system and, hence, to Australia's external environment, which has affected the country's decisionmaking, accelerating the formation of a hardline policy toward China. A contributing factor behind this policy is Australia's quest for ontological security, which, in the context of COVID-19, has triggered a rise in anti-China sentiment. Meanwhile, this strategy backfired when it encountered China's own nationalism, which exacerbated the widening political chasm, dragging the two countries into an unprecedented diplomatic confrontation. The core of ontological security lies in maintaining the stability of the identity needed for the formation of consistent policy. The uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic have changed the familiar external environment and challenged Australia's ability to interpret this new environment and adjust to it, which has triggered ontological insecurity. By analyzing Australia's identity as a middle power in the context of changing regional security and its commitment to certain values, the article shows how COVID-19 has accelerated Australia's quest for ontological security, which has changed the country's China policy.

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Section: Australia's Assertiveness Anti-china Sentiment and Increase In Uncertaintymentioning

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The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19

Pan

Korolev

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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“…Indeed, the interplay between the domestic and international contexts appears prominently in the studies of China’s official discourse and has been addressed extensively by Kingsley Edney in his study of propaganda [ 15 ]. Yifan Yang and Xuechen Chen [ 62 ] focused on a similar aspect within China’s official discourse: the interplay of globalist and nationalist language during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yung-Yung Chang [ 9 ] focused on how Covid-19 pandemic would impact China’s narratives at the three levels (international system, national, and issue narratives) in terms of their formation, projection, and reception.…”

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Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus

Mochťak

Turcsányi

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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The paper presents an original corpus of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs press conferences. The dataset is a unique source of information on official positions and diplomatic narratives of China mapping almost two decades of its foreign policy discourse. The corpus contains almost 23,000 question – answer dyads from 2002 to 2020 ready to be used for analytical purposes. We argue the dataset is an important contribution to the scholarship on Chinese foreign policy stimulating further research using corpus based methods while employing both qualitative and quantitative strategies. We demonstrate possible applications of the corpus with two case studies: first maps the diplomatic discourse towards the US under the presidency of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping (employing quantitative tools), while second analyzes narratives concerning the South China Sea disputes (employing more qualitative approach).

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“…A feature of the new crisis is not only that it creates an unprecedented philosophy of uncertainty, but also the fact that it hits jobs, changes the direction of production and delivery of goods, destroys entire sectors of the economy, in particular tourism, transport and even energy (due to the fall in oil demand). In just a month since the beginning of quarantine in the United States, about 22 million people reported their unemployment (Henry, Le Roux, & Parry, 2021;Kissinger, 2020;The Economist, 2020;Yang & Xuechen, 2020).…”

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Post-COVID-19 World Philosophy of Functioning: New Globalisation Challenges

Krasivskyy¹,

Maziy²,

Krasivsky³

et al. 2021

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The major purpose of the study is to characterise the philosophy of the functioning of the world in such conditions. Methodology of this article included: general scientific methods (formal-logical, systemic, structural-functional, concrete-historical) general logical methods of theoretical analysis (analysis, synthesis, generalisation, comparison, abstraction, analogy, modelling, etc.) specific scientific methods (technical analysis, specification, interpretation, etc.). As a result of the study, the philosophical and social essence of the crisis and pandemic was characterised. Considered how the crisis and pandemic affect the functioning of the suspension and its philosophy of worldview. Determined how strong the impact of COVID-19 and the crisis it has formed. The philosophical and social aspect of the pandemic in modern conditions of development and what new globalisation challenges it entails has been investigated.

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Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak

Cited by 64 publications

References 51 publications

The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19

The Struggle for Certainty: Ontological Security, the Rise of Nationalism, and Australia-China Tensions after COVID-19

Studying Chinese Foreign Policy Narratives: Introducing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Conferences Corpus

Post-COVID-19 World Philosophy of Functioning: New Globalisation Challenges

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