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Visualizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative on RT (Russia Today): from infrastructural project to human development
This paper comprises original research on China’s use of bilateral media cooperation to mediate its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Building upon the literature on strategic narratives, aesthetic power and the Silk Road as a foreign policy concept, we present a detailed case study of the visual imagery of the “Silk Road” documentary collaboration between China’s and Russia’s state-owned international broadcasters, China Radio International and RT (formerly Russia Today). We employ a visual methodology to interrogate the formation and projection of multimodal (visual, textual and oral) narratives about China’s infrastructural activities along this metaphorical new “Silk Road”. We examine how the Silk Road series gives sense to China’s BRI, the relative weighting of Chinese and Russian strategic narratives about the BRI, and how power is distributed in this Chinese-Russian media partnership. Our analysis reveals that in re-packaging visual imagery that applies nostalgia to the history of core places and technologizes their future, the series projects a pre-curated Chinese visual narrative that emplots the BRI as human and cultural development. Russian regional strategic narratives are marginalized. China is applying its aesthetic power to Russian journalists and politicians; RT obtains some commercial benefits, but the Russian state’s aesthetic power is ceded to China
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Russia rising? The normative renaissance of multinational organizations
Conscious of the West’s relative decline, Russia is increasingly balancing its engagements with established players, such as the EU, with moves to strengthen the conditions for the global multipolarity it craves. It seeks to play a pivotal role in many and varied international organisations. As well as repeatedly self-identifying as part of BRICS, and pursuing joint economic and military initiatives with partners in the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, most recently, Russia’s ruling elite has committed vast resources to the Eurasian customs Union (and intended Eurasian Union)
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Government disinformation in war and conflict
This chapter provides an insight into government disinformation in war and conflict. More recent scholarship defines propaganda as ‘the deliberate manipulation of representations with the intention of producing any effect in the audience that is desired by the propagandist’. In what is considered one of the foundational texts for understanding modern war and conflict, Clausewitz notes that a 'great part of the information obtained in war is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character'. Subsequently, approaches interested in propaganda, framing, or strategic narrative may be interested in looking at how specific instances of disinformation are deployed by governments at war or in evaluating the truthfulness of certain claims made by governments in conflicts. Whether studied through the lens of propaganda, framing, strategic narratives, or discourse, the people now need to account for the contemporary dynamics of digital communication when studying disinformation during war