THE CODES OF BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE: A MEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the reflections of China's One Belt One Road Project in US press from the date when the project was announced to 2019 through content analysis technique. For this purpose, the news in The New York Times, which is the oldest and leading newspaper in the field of economy in USA and has audiences who have liberal and at the left of the center political values, have been analyzed. Some of the codes and categories extracted have become prominent for all those years. These are; Maritime Silk Road, Pakistan, China and Kazakhstan codes under OBOR Member Countries category; Facilities Connectivity, Financial Integration, Policy Coordination and Industrial Cooperation codes under OBOR Project Priorities category and Italy and America codes under Other Countries category.