Decoding Australia's China threat narrative during 2016-2021/

LIU Kerry

Decoding Australia's China threat narrative during 2016-2021/ Kerry Liu - 2023

Australia-China relations began to sour in 2016, and the China threat narrative began to dominate since then. Unlike previous studies which either use a qualitative approach or cross-sectional dataset for empirical analysis, this study creatively creates high-frequency weekly and monthly time series datasets using the Google Trends search results during January 2016-February 2021.


AUSTRALIA--CHINA
POLICIES
THREAT