What's in a name? : Analysing the role of netizens in Beijing's foreign policymaking

• Main Author: Low, Benjamin Quan Hui
• Other Authors: Li Mingjiang
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77145
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As a result of an online outcry by its netizens in early 2018, Beijing decided to demand dozens of foreign companies, most of them international airlines, to re-designate Taipei as “Taiwan, China” on their websites. This is unprecedented due to the PRC’s tendency to isolate its rival, the ROC, mainl...