A Study Of The Economist's Coverage On China

The Economist,as a long-standing elite magazine,covers various political,economic and social issues and has a huge influence on the elites of Western countries.In 2012,The Economist created the third national column in its histo ry,the China column.In view of its influence in the world,the attitude and p osition it takes on reporting China will have a significant impact on its reader s,which makes it a vital factor in shaping China's image in international com munity.The changes of China-related topics covered by The Economist are consist ent with its global perspective.As a comprehensive news weekly,the choice o f topics shows that China's international influence is constantly increasing and China is getting increasingly involved in international affairs.This article takes the China-related reports published by The Economist from 2004 to 2019 as th e research object and the research is based on the framework theory from the macro,medium and micro levels,coordinated with quantitative and qualitative analysis.Besides,the reports of The Economist and Beijing Review on China-U S trade war between 2018 and 2019 are used as examples for comparative ana lysis to illustrate the difference between the Chinese and foreign English-langua ge media's reporting international issues.Through this research,the author conc ludes that The Economist's reports on China has three different perspectives: th e framework of the theoretical background helps it grasp the changes of the in ternational community;the framework of the global perspective helps it analyze the problems accurately and directly;and the framework of rhetorical methods makes the magazine enhance the appeal of news texts through language skills.The author thinks the international reports of Chinese media should make progress in the following aspects: first,China's media should improve the diver sity and precision of agenda setting in a global perspective,taking clear positio ns and source balance into account;second,China's media should improve its storytelling skills,attaching importance to the use of conflicting framework to deeply explore issues;third,China's media should utilize various news element s and give full play to their metaphorical functions,so as to improve the effic iency of news reports.With these,China's media will increase their weight in international news coverage.