THE CODES OF BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: A MEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS

Year 2020, Volume: 19 Issue: 75, 1507 - 1516, 01.07.2020

Büşra Gezikol Tuğba Onur Hakan Tunahan

https://doi.org/10.17755/esosder.675958

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the reflections of China's One Belt One Road Project in US press from the date when the project was announced to 2019 through content analysis technique. For this purpose, the news in The New York Times, which is the oldest and leading newspaper in the field of economy in USA and has audiences who have liberal and at the left of the center political values, have been analyzed. Some of the codes and categories extracted have become prominent for all those years. These are; Maritime Silk Road, Pakistan, China and Kazakhstan codes under OBOR Member Countries category; Facilities Connectivity, Financial Integration, Policy Coordination and Industrial Cooperation codes under OBOR Project Priorities category and Italy and America codes under Other Countries category.

Keywords

One Belt One Road, Media Content Analysis, Financial Integration, Industrial Cooperation, Facilities Connectivity, The New York Times

THE CODES OF BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: A MEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Çin'in Tek Kuşak Tek Yol Projesi'nin projesini, duyurulduğu tarihten 2019 yılına kadar içerik analizi tekniği ile yansımalarını incelemektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda ABD’de ekonomi alanında en eski ve önde gelen bununla birlikte liberal ve merkez siyasi değerlerin solunda okuyucuları bulunan The New York Times'daki haberler analiz edilmiştir. Tüm yılları kapsayan analizde bazı kategori ve kodların ön plana çıktığı görülmektedir. Bunlar: Deniz İpek Yolu, OBOR Üye Ülkeler kategorisi altında Pakistan, Çin ve Kazakistan kodları, OBOR Proje Öncelikleri kategorisi altında Altyapı Entegrasyonu, Finansal Entegrasyon, Politik İlişkiler ve Sektörel İşbirliği kodları ve Diğer Ülkeler kategorisi altındaki İtalya ve Amerika kodlarıdır.

Keywords

Tek Kuşak Tek Yol, Medya İçerik Analizi, Finansal Entegrasyon, Sektörel İşbirliği, Altyapı Entegrasyonu, The New York Times

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