The Contagion of Distant Politics: Partisan Discourse on Chinese-language Social Media During Major U.S. Political Events

• In Event: Political Communication in China

Brief Overview

Using LLM-analyzed social media text, I find that Chinese-speaking users exhibit quasi-partisan behavior after exposre to U.S. partisan debate. This suggests that partisan identities can be mapped onto social identities of distant observers.

Author

• Muzhi Liu, Columbia University