STRUCTURAL DIVERGENCE IN BRI MEDIA FRAMING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UZBEKISTAN AND MYANMAR
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This study compares how China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is framed in the media of Uzbekistan and Myanmar, two countries that differ structurally in their media-state configurations. Using Most Different Systems Design (MDSD), the study draws on quantitative content analysis, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling, and Spearman's rank-order correlation within a first-level agenda-setting framework. For Uzbekistan, prior empirical work showed a strong positive correlation between comparative media analysis of BRI issues across Daryo.uz and Gazeta.uz and public opinion, with strategic partnership and infrastructure development as the most salient frames. For Myanmar, previous works found a similarly strong overall correlation (rho = 0.87, p < 0.05), but with local concern and governance issues ranking far higher than in Uzbekistan. This structural divergence in issue salience with Uzbek media foregrounding cooperative frames and Myanmar media sustaining critical and citizen-oriented frames extends first-level agenda-setting theory to infrastructure diplomacy contexts and demonstrates that agenda-setting effects are shaped by the degree of media-state relations in each country.
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