A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective

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Autor(a) principal: Papageorgiou, Maria
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Vieira, Alena
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/83721
Resumo: The paper focuses on the COVID-19 as a stress test to the Sino-Russian strategic partnership: has it driven Russia and China closer together, farther apart, or made no difference? Employing content analysis of official Russian discourse as expressed by the Kremlin, the Government, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), both via their official web pages (104 online publications) and Twitter accounts (260 tweets), this study focuses on the Russian twiplomacy as a more suitable mean to reflect the real-time changes of an evolving crisis. The analysis demonstrates that the Sino-Russian relationship extends beyond the "axis of convenience." It does not, however, correspond to the support expected from a consolidated (comprehensive) strategic partnership, nor does it achieve the intensity of soft balancing (vis-à-vis the USA) in a particularly polarized and politicized international context.
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spelling A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspectiveSino-Russian relationsStrategic partnershipMutual supportCoronavirusTwitterCiências Sociais::Ciências PolíticasSocial SciencesThe paper focuses on the COVID-19 as a stress test to the Sino-Russian strategic partnership: has it driven Russia and China closer together, farther apart, or made no difference? Employing content analysis of official Russian discourse as expressed by the Kremlin, the Government, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), both via their official web pages (104 online publications) and Twitter accounts (260 tweets), this study focuses on the Russian twiplomacy as a more suitable mean to reflect the real-time changes of an evolving crisis. The analysis demonstrates that the Sino-Russian relationship extends beyond the "axis of convenience." It does not, however, correspond to the support expected from a consolidated (comprehensive) strategic partnership, nor does it achieve the intensity of soft balancing (vis-à-vis the USA) in a particularly polarized and politicized international context.This study was conducted at the Research Centre in Political Science (UIDB/CPO/00758/2020), University of Minho/University of Evora, and supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science through national funds.Springer NatureUniversidade do MinhoPapageorgiou, MariaVieira, Alena20212021-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/83721engPapageorgiou, M., & Vieira, A. (2021, April 15). A Friend in Need? The Sino-Russian Relationship Under the Coronavirus Crisis in Twitter: a Russian Perspective. East Asia. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. http://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-021-09361-21096-683810.1007/s12140-021-09361-2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:49:50Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/83721Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:48:24.762365Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
title A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
spellingShingle A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
Papageorgiou, Maria
Sino-Russian relations
Strategic partnership
Mutual support
Coronavirus
Twitter
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
Social Sciences
title_short A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
title_full A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
title_fullStr A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
title_full_unstemmed A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
title_sort A friend in need? The sino-Russian relationship under the coronavirus crisis in twitter: a Russian perspective
author Papageorgiou, Maria
author_facet Papageorgiou, Maria
Vieira, Alena
author_role author
author2 Vieira, Alena
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Papageorgiou, Maria
Vieira, Alena
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Sino-Russian relations
Strategic partnership
Mutual support
Coronavirus
Twitter
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
Social Sciences
topic Sino-Russian relations
Strategic partnership
Mutual support
Coronavirus
Twitter
Ciências Sociais::Ciências Políticas
Social Sciences
description The paper focuses on the COVID-19 as a stress test to the Sino-Russian strategic partnership: has it driven Russia and China closer together, farther apart, or made no difference? Employing content analysis of official Russian discourse as expressed by the Kremlin, the Government, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), both via their official web pages (104 online publications) and Twitter accounts (260 tweets), this study focuses on the Russian twiplomacy as a more suitable mean to reflect the real-time changes of an evolving crisis. The analysis demonstrates that the Sino-Russian relationship extends beyond the "axis of convenience." It does not, however, correspond to the support expected from a consolidated (comprehensive) strategic partnership, nor does it achieve the intensity of soft balancing (vis-à-vis the USA) in a particularly polarized and politicized international context.
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