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This book presents empirical claims on how Chinese policy elites exploit crisis-induced policy opportunity by crisis rhetoric in three mega-crises. The first part of this chapter reexamines the theoretical and empirical goals of this book. The last sections reflect on crisis exploitation research in China and formulate an agenda for future studies in non-Western countries.
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In the face of an uncertain situation, governments or crisis management agencies usually exercise strict control over the outflow of negative information (bad news) to avoid public panic and preserve social stability.
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Liu, Y. (2022). Crisis Exploitation and Framing in Non-western Regime. In: Crisis Rhetoric and Policy Change in China. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7763-2_8
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