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81 China Int'l Stud. 69 (2020)
The Emergence and Fallacy of 'China's Debt-Trap Diplomacy' Narrative

handle is hein.journals/chintersd81 and id is 69 raw text is: The Emergence and Fallacy of China's Debt-Trap Diplomacy Narrative Xu Shaomin & Li Jiang n recent years, China has gained fruitful achievements in investment and infrastructure construction cooperation with countries along the proposed Belt and Road routes. At the same time, the West has begun to attack the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with fallacies, of which China's debt-trap diplomacy is a typical example. By putting the blame for the debt crisis of some developing countries on China, it tarnishes China's international image and creates obstacles for the BRI. Therefore, it is particularly necessary to have a thorough understanding of the cause and effect of the China's debt- trap diplomacy narrative, to refute its erroneous nature and reveal the real root causes of the current debt crisis in many developing countries. Socialization and Politicization of China's Debt-Trap Diplomacy Narrative With the development of the BRI, claims of China's debt-trap diplomacy have widely appeared in the West. Driven by the joint hype of Western media and politicians, it has been rapidly socialized1 and politicized. Xu Shaomin is Director and Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology; Li Jiang is Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology. 1 Socialization here refers to the process in which traditional media and social media interact rapidly and extensively in setting the agenda for each other's coverage, so as to rapidly transform it from a meme to a narrative, and effectively eliminate and suppress any other alternative narrative through passing news back and forth from media to media, finally forming an overwhelmingly dominating official narrative. The socialization mode of this kind of topic can also have a profound impact on political discussions, election campaigns and government policies. See Adam Breuer and Alastair lain Johnston, Memes, Narratives and the Emergent US- China Security Dilemma, Cambridge Review of InternationalAffairs, Vol.32, No.4, 2019, pp.432-435. The Emergence and Fallacy of China's Debt-Trap Diplomacy Narrative MarchlApri1 2020 6 9

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