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Human rights have been an important issue in the relationship between the EEC/EU and China, particularly since June 1989. The European news media, whether national and international, has covered a great many stories concerning Chinese human rights since then. What, if any, is the relationship between the media coverage and EU’s human rights policy regarding China in the long term? This chapter explores the media—foreign policy relationship at the micro level—the EU’s policy on a specific issue regarding China and the coverage of this issue in the European transnational media.
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Zhang, L. (2011). Policy Indexing: Media Coverage and the EU’s Human Rights Policy Regarding China. In: News Media and EU-China Relations. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118638_7
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