"Sino-US Trade War" Research On Public Opinion In Japan

On March 23,2018,President Trump of the United States formally signed the memorandum of trade with China,tariffs on imports from China’s $60 billion goods,and limit the Chinese companies to invest in the mergers and acquisitions,it marks a new round of a trade war with China open,also means that began in the 1990 s by the unilateral lifting of sino-us trade disputes escalated.Sino-us relations and sino-japanese relations have always played an extremely important strategic role in China’s foreign policy.Both the United States and Japan regard China as their main competitor.As China continues to rise,it will further change the structure of international and regional forces and relations.Japan and China have close geographical,historical and economic ties as well as half a century of animosity.As the"agent"of the United States in the asia-pacific region,Japan shares a close alliance with the United States.Some people believe that china-us relations affect and influence china-japan relations.So how does Japan view this round of sino-us trade disputes?What are the characteristics of public sentiment in Japan?Does it present a certain public sentiment framework?How relevant is this framework to china-us and china-japan relations?Can it reflect the changes and trends of the three countries’relations?This study hopes to make a multi-dimensional and comprehensive analysis of public sentiment about China in Japan during the"sino-us trade war"from three different levels of voices through Japanese mainstream media reports,social media voices and think tanks,in an attempt to answer the above questions and provide some references for policy makers and decision-makers.This study involves three kinds of public sentiment sources,namely,the paper version of asahi shimbun news public sentiment,the network public sentiment reflected by Twitter’s tweets in Japan,and the think tank report with influence on Japanese social public sentiment.The time cycle selected by The research Institute is March 22,2018,solstice December 31,2018.A total of 157 news reports,257 tweets and 12 think tank reports of The Japan Institute of International Affairs and The Asian Development Bank Institute were selected through time period and keyword retrieval.This study mainly USES the method of quantitative and qualitative analysis,and makes a framework summary of the characteristics of public sentiments on"sino-us trade war"in Japan and China and three different levels of public sentiments through content analysis and framework analysis.The paper consists of five parts,the main structure is as follows:The introduction is composed of the origin of the topic,literature review and research design.In the body part,the first chapter analyzes the reports of"sino-us trade war"in asahi shimbun from the perspectives of the number,genre,theme and information source,and proposes three framework topics,namely"economic chain reaction","two-way criticism"and"sino-japanese cooperation".In chapter two,three frameworks of"economic shock","one-way criticism"and"zero-sum game"are extracted based on the number,theme,attitude and identity of the tweets about"sino-us trade war"sent by Japanese in Japan.Chapter three analyzes the reports of two Japanese think tanks on"sino-us trade war",and extracts two frameworks of"threat"and"China’s rise".The fourth chapter makes a comprehensive analysis based on the previous analysis of different levels to analyze the characteristics,similarities and differences and causes of public sentiments.Public sentiments vary from time to time and from time to time.The"sino-us trade war"in Japan reflects the china-japan relations and sino-us relations.The study found that Japanese public sentiment generally believed that the"sino-us trade war"was actually the hegemony competition between emerging superpowers and superpowers,and issues such as intellectual property rights and trade deficit were the trigger of the"war".The public sentiments of traditional media,social network and think tank also show three different levels of frame differences due to different positions:the asahi shimbun is a reasonable defender of the world economy,with a relatively mild attitude towards China;In Japan,Twitter is an emotional expresser of diverse issues from a critical perspective.It follows the view and logic that"a strong country is bound to seek hegemony",and represents the interests of Japanese people and financial groups.The Japan institute of international studies and theAsian development bank institute put the"sino-us trade war"in the"threat framework"from the perspective of the government and from the diplomatic position.