'Barbarising' China in American trade war discourse: the assault on Huawei.
How is the legitimation of the American trade war with China discursively managed and conferred in recent American political discourse? This paper critically examines this under-explored question in the current literature. Taking cues from critical international theory and its insight on discourse a...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 7; pp. 1436 - 1455 |
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Jul2021
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