Narațiuni strategice de sănătate publică în pandemia de coronavirus. Propagandă și contra-propagandă

• Main Author: LUCIAN DUMITRESCU
• Format: Article
• Language: ron
• Published: Editura Institutului de Științe Politice și Relații Internaționale „Ion I. C. Brătianu‟ 2020-06-01
• Series: Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale
• Subjects: strategic narratives; securitization; covid-19; the united stated; china
• Online Access: https://79dd720e-4b65-4316-bb39-526d8ea1c51d.filesusr.com/ugd/d1cf60_a6eee91883eb4e5b8f879ba75f779d05.pdf

The article works from the assumption that security is an intersubjective process, which means that every security threat has a socially constructed dimension. The article investigates the public health strategic narrative through which Beijing has built China’s medical exceptionalism during the COVID-19 pandemic. The texts displays both the inclusive and exclusive practices that has been used to that end. However, the emphasis is placed on those exclusive practices that have brought their contribution to both a soft and hard securitization of the US. For China’s medical exceptionalism has been used as a cover up for its political exceptionalism, the article examines how a strategic narrative built in the US delegitimizes the “Chinese model” of coping with the coronavirus pandemic. To that end, there have been used mostly exclusive practices, that is security representations that have brought their contribtion to a soft and hard securitization of China. The article demonstrates that the exclusive practices that Beijing has resorted to in order to promote a “Chinese model” are tantamount to the exclusive practices through which Washington D.C. has delegitimzed China’s medical exceptionalism. Thus, the article deals with the process of propaganda in the mirror.