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Weibo as a Public Diplomacy Platform

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“Weibo as a public diplomacy tool”, borrows the “three-dimension framework” from Bjola and Jiang (in: Bjola and Holmes (eds) Digital diplomacy: theory and practice, Routledge, New York, 2015), discusses each dimension in relation to the empirical data in previous chapters.

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Jiang, Y. (2017). Weibo as a Public Diplomacy Platform. In: Social Media and e-Diplomacy in China. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59358-0_6

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