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Die vielfach konträren Menschenrechtspositionen Chinas und der USA erklären maßgeblich die unterschiedliche Berichterstattung in den Tageszeitungen beider Länder. Frédéric Krumbein weist dies durch Untersuchung der Zeitungen China Daily, New York Times und South China Morning Post in unterschiedlichen Zeiträumen nach. Während die USA die politischen und bürgerlichen Rechte ihrer Verfassung als Menschenrechte definieren, priorisiert China die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Menschenrechte sowie die kollektiven Menschenrechte auf Grundsicherung und Entwicklung. Sowohl New York Times als auch die Hongkonger South China Morning Post berichten ähnlich kritisch über die chinesische Menschenrechtslage. Die festlandchinesische China Daily sieht die chinesische Menschenrechtslage hingegen positiv. Über Menschenrechte in den USA wird in den beiden chinesischen Zeitungen kaum berichtet. Der Inhalt Theorie der Menschenrechte Menschenrechtsdiskurse aus China Menschenrechtsdiskurse aus den USA Mediale Berichterstattung zu Menschenrechten in China und den USA Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Politik-, Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Sinologie, Philosophie JournalistInnen Der Autor Dr. Frédéric Krumbein ist Menschenrechtsexperte bei der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin

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Regional integration theory can explain past and present processes of cross-strait integration and disintegration. Historical institutionalism can analyse how the path dependence of the 'One China policy' shapes cross-strait relations until today and how fundamental changes can occur through critical junctures. Neofunctionalism can well explain the dynamics of economic integration through spillovers and spillbacks driven by transnational actors since the 1980s. Liberal intergovernmentalism can shed light on the bargaining processes and their outcomes during the negotiation of various cross-strait agreements under the Ma Ying-jeou administration. Postfunctionalism offers the best explanation for the central role that identity has played in cross-strait relations, in particular since 2014.

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The article analyses the rise and fall of the Kuomintang candidate in the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election, Han Kuo-yu. It examines how three leading Taiwanese newspapers, the China Times, the Liberty Times, and the United Daily News, have reported about him and his populist strategy and style. Han Kuo-yu is almost uniformly viewed as a populist due to his anti-elite discourse, self-styling as a common man, and use of simple and direct language. The analysis of Han Kuo-yu and the media coverage about him is based on three leading approaches to defining and understanding populism—the 'ideational', 'political-strategic', and 'socio-cultural' approaches—and academic definitions of populism that have been used and invented by scholars in Taiwan since the island's democratisation in the 1990s.

The paper describes the growing human rights gap between China on one side and the US and Taiwan on the other side and analyses its impact on cross-strait relations. Since Xi Jinping's ascent to power in the People's Republic of China in 2012/2013 and the elections of Donald Trump in the US and Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan in 2016, the relationship between China and the other two countries has worsened. The US and Taiwan have a similar view on human rights in the PRC. The increasing repression and authoritarianism of the PRC leads to a human rights gap in the Taiwan Strait that increases the divide and the tensions between both sides. The failure of the PRC to address in its proposal for a peaceful unification the concerns of the Taiwanese for their democracy and human rights pushes Taiwan further away. The similar assessment of the PRC's authoritarian threat by the US and Taiwan strengthens the bond between both, based on the shared values of democracy and human rights. (Pac Rev/GIGA)