What is it about?
Why would China prevent international involvement in Syria's ongoing humanitarian crisis? This paper looks at how Chinese media focus on the primacy of "sovereignty" over the principle of "responsibility to protect" - justifying inaction.
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Why is it important?
China's global role is growing both in influence and complexity. It's important to know if this rising power will take on greater responsibility for the global commons or not. This paper intimates that China is still finding its footing on the global stage, one day allowing for intervention in Libya and the next preventing action in Syria. Does material interest dictate this decision or is there a deeper, foreign policy operating principle that outweighs material interest?
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The puzzle was simple: Why did China allow for international intervention in Libya and not in Syria? What was the difference? I looked at media representation and did a discourse analysis to try to solve this puzzle.
Dr. Markos Kounalakis
Hoover Institution
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This page is a summary of: Chinas position on international intervention: A media and journalism critical discourse analysis of its case for "Sovereignty" versus "Responsibility to Protect" principles in Syria, Global Media and China, June 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2059436416654918.
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