INTERNATIONAL relations, COMMUNIST parties, NATIONAL security
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DIGITAL technology, INTERNET security, COMMUNIST parties, NATIONAL security
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Cybersecurity has become a key regulatory area in China's rapidly digitizing society, economy, and state. The leadership deems it critical in providing adequate security guarantees for the realization of the ambitious "informatization" policy, symbolized by the passing of the Cybersecurity Law in 2016. Cybersecurity has also become integrated with overall national security, at a time when Chinese policy has become increasingly securitized. What, then, does this mean in practice? How do authorities conceive of cybersecurity and attempt to retrofit regulatory frameworks into an already well-established digital environment. This paper reviews the various components of the cybersecurity regime established by the Cybersecurity Law. It discusses how external circumstances have facilitated or obstructed the advance of regulation and implementation and demonstrates how cybersecurity is embedded in the broader processes of reform led by the Chinese Communist Party. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
INTERNATIONAL trade disputes, FRICTION, NATIONAL security, NATIONAL interest, COMMUNIST parties
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The ongoing Sino-U.S. trade dispute between the world's two largest economies has since 2018 attracted much attention from the international media. This study used the approach of corpus-assisted discourse studies to compare how leading English-language newspapers from each side—The New York Times (NYT) and China Daily (CD) — discursively constructed this issue. The findings indicated that while NYT tended to profile the trade conflict as a 'war' in line with mainstream hard-line ideologies that emphasize China's presumed threat to national security of the U.S., CD sought to dial down the rhetoric and showed a preference for defining the matter as a 'friction', consistent with the tenet of 'pragmatic nationalism' endorsed by the Communist Party of China. Accordingly, the two newspapers framed the causes, moral evaluation/consequences, and treatment of the issue in congruence with their respective dominant metaphors by means of various linguistic patterns. These differences are interpreted with regard to each side's underlying ideologies and national interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]