This book focuses on China's media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China's media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts.

Shixin Ivy Zhang is an Associate Professor in Journalism Studies at University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

Altman Yuzhu Peng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK

1. Studying media-conflict relationship through the lens of China
2. Strategy-framing of International Conflicts: A Multi-dimensional Framework for Transnational Comparative Content Analysis
3. Media type and framing of the Sino-US Trade War

An analysis of articles from party and nonparty news organizations in China

4. Soft Power Clashes? China in Platform Geopolitics: Global Aspirations and Political Struggles
5. Competing narratives of the Uyghur-Han conflicts and China-West geopolitical rivalries
6. The politics of remembering: commemorating the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in an era of China-US rivalry
7. The Domain of the State: Interpreting the 2012 Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Disputes at Liberal

oriented Chinese Commercial Newspapers

8. How is NATO viewed in China?

NATO's strategic communication and perceptions of Zhihu users

9. Indian media's China dilemma

Sino-India 2020 face-off through the lens of Indian press: Analysis of editorials

10. China's Overlooked Role in the Syrian Crisis
11. Mediatized Representation: Palestinian Online News Framing of China's Positions on the Question of Palestine (2020-2021)
12. Reimagining western media portrayals of China: U.S. and Ghanaian coverage of China's Covid-19 response