Counterframing, Blame Avoidance, and China's Rhetorical Response to 'Debt-Trap Diplomacy'.
There has been a widespread concern over China using the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to pursue 'debt-trap diplomacy' (DTD). This study examines China's rhetorical counter to DTD. To that end, it draws insights from counterframing and blame avoidance and dissects a corpus of Chinese official docum...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 34; no. 154; pp. 691 - 707 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2025
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