Between tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media

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dc.contributor.authorDoidge, Mathew
dc.contributor.authorKelly S
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-03T21:05:24Z
dc.date.available2024-11-03T21:05:24Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe Indo-Pacific context has gained increasing geopolitical focus over the last decade, and particularly over the last five years as powers such as the United States, Australia, the European Union (and three of its Member States – France, Germany and the Netherlands) have elaborated dedicated Indo-Pacific strategies. Underlying these has been a concern with the actions of China, defined through contested geopolitical discourses on its role as an actor in the region. While this contestation has been given some attention in academic literature, notably absent has been a consideration of the impact on regional states caught between these discursive tides, and particularly of the Pacific Island states (unsurprising, given the focus on the northern maritime arc that predominates in Indo-Pacific research). This article fills this gap through analysis of eight news media outlets (seven local and one regional) covering October–November 2019 and 2022, identifying the main discourses on China in Pacific media and their source, and examining the impact of these on local Pacific reporting. It finds that, notwithstanding the preponderance of ‘Western’ discourses on China’s role in Pacific media through republication of external media reporting, this does not translate into influence over Pacific reporting. Instead, it is Chinese discourses on its role that have the greatest resonance.
dc.identifier.citationDoidge M, Kelly S (2024). Between tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media. The Pacific Review.
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2024.2412010
dc.identifier.issn0951-2748
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/107664
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stated
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectDevelopment
dc.subjectGeopolitics
dc.subjectIndo-Pacific
dc.subjectMedia Discourse
dc.subjectPacific Islands
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440807 - Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific
dc.subject.anzsrc44 - Human society::4408 - Political science::440808 - International relations
dc.subject.anzsrc47 - Language, communication and culture::4701 - Communication and media studies::470107 - Media studies
dc.subject.anzsrc47 - Language, communication and culture::4701 - Communication and media studies::470104 - International and development communication
dc.titleBetween tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media
dc.typeJournal Article
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentNational Centre for Research on Europe
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