Framing China in the Pacific Islands.
How did many Australians come to accept that competition, rather than cooperation, with China was necessary in the Pacific Islands? We use discourse analysis techniques to examine the role that framings in Australian official discourse, media, and commentary over the last decade (2011–2021) played i...
| Publicado en: | Australian Journal of International Affairs Vol. 76; no. 5; pp. 522 - 546 |
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