Evaluating the American-Chinese trade war on Chinese social media: discourses of nationalism and rectifying a humiliating past.
The US and China have both benefited greatly from their trading relationship. However, motivated by a US concern that their partner was becoming more of a rival, then-president Donald Trump began a 'trade war' in 2018. In US news outlets and, of particular interest here, on American social media pla...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 511 - 531 |
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