Bundling Threats: Why Dominant Perceptions of China Changed in Europe
Journal: The Chinese Journal of International Politics
Year: 2025

Abstract Popular perceptions of China in Europe have clearly shifted over the past few years. This article builds on the literature that assesses how narratives of China emerge and change, and how they influence policy on how best to respond to China’s rise. We construct an analytical framework in which we identify two different types of reasons for change in dominant perceptions, underlying and precipitating, and a transmitting process (narrative diffusion). We argue that four underlying and th