Data of "Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy"
This repository offers a Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (WWD) index derived from textual data based on Lim, Ito, and Zhang (2024).
Estimated data download (version of August 21st, 2024): Excel
The measurement based on sentiment analysis was conducted using a dictionary-based approach as outlined by Wang and Ku (2016). The measurement using the latent semantic scaling (LSS) method employed seed words from Brazys, Dukalskis, and Müller (2023). For details on LSS itself, please refer to Watanabe (2021).
Brazys, Samuels, Alexander Dukalskis and Stefan Müller (2023) ‘Leader of the Pack? Changes in ‘Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’ after a Politburo Collective Study Session’, The China Quarterly 254, pp. 484-493.
Lim, Jeahwan, Asei Ito, and Hongyong Zhang (2024) "Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications", mimeo.
Wang, Shi-Ming, and Lun-Wei Ku (2016) ‘ANTUSD: A large Chinese Sentiment Dictionary’, In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), (2016), pp. 2697-2702.
Watanabe, Kohei (2021) ‘Latent semantic scaling: A Semisupervised Text Analysis Technique for New Domains and Languages’, Communication Methods and Measures 15(2), pp. 81-102.
Please cite as follows:
Lim, Jeahwan, Asei Ito, and Hongyong Zhang (2024) "Unpacking China’s Wolf Warrior Diplomacy: Patterns, Drivers, and Implications", mimeo.
asei[at]iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp