Global Financial Media and China's Greater Bay Area: Digital Dilemmas (Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies)

Examining the complex dynamics of Sino-U.S. relations through the lens of media discourse, this book explores how political, business, and media elites shape narratives around China's Greater Bay Area against a backdrop of economic interdependence and geopolitical tensions. This book explores how global media and policy elites make sense of China’s digital rise at a time of intensifying geopolitical tension and technological competition.Focusing on the Greater Bay Area (China’s ambitious attempt to build a world-class digital innovation hub), the book examines how American, British, and Chinese financial media frame China’s role in the global digital economy.Rather than treating the U.S.-China relationship as a simple confrontation, the book shows how elite discourses reveal a series of unresolved tensions.Governments and markets remain deeply interconnected even as political rhetoric hardens.Drawing on large-scale analysis of financial news coverage, interviews, and computational text