Military Escalations and Asymmetric Media Framing: Evidence from Cross-Strait Relations

• In Event: Public Opinion, Media Framing, and Domestic Politics

Brief Overview

We use word-embedding text analysis to examine effects of China’s threats on blame attribution in Taiwan’s domestic media. We find that only anti-China media intensifies framing China as aggressive during crises, while others remain static.

Authors

• Samuel Liu, Cornell University

• Siu Hei Wong, Princeton University