Abstract The literature on civility navigates the gravitational pulls of binary camps: sceptics tend to emphasize how it operates as an instrument power; optimists its emancipatory potentials. While some scholarship has attempted reconcile these perspectives by showing can be both negative and positive, such theorization tends describe this relation in terms ambivalence. approaches rightly indi...

The present study is an analysis of a sample reports on China’s handling COVID-19 by several major US media with focus controversial op-ed the Wall Street Journal. It found that instead covering it objectively as public health crisis, these tend to adopt strategy naming, shaming, blaming, and taming against China. In other words, they seize outbreak in Wuhan opportunity serve Trump’s “America F...