Soft Power along the Digital Silk Road? China’s Belt and Road Initiative through the Looking Glass of Twitter

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Brief Overview

This study examines BRI discourses internationally using Twitter large-scale data. It not only shows the variation in global perceptions of BRI, but analyzes factors influencing this differentiation at the country, individual, and tweet levels.

Author

• Huiyi Lyu, Tsinghua University