国际变局下日本智库和主流媒体对中国形象的建构

国际秩序的变动、突发的新冠疫情和中美战略竞争的加剧等因素促使日本的中国形象正在发生重要而深刻的变化。日本智库和主流媒体更多地把中国放在国际秩序变动的语境中来认知中国,比起双边,更多是在多边框架内来感知中国。在多种因素的综合作用下,日本形成了“崛起的强国”“国际秩序改写者”、疫情下“坚韧”而“强硬”的中国、带有不确定性的美国“假想敌”等多层次中国形象。日本智库和主流媒体对中国形象的塑造未必是客观的,是基于在国际秩序转型期对自身认同的建构,那就是现行国际秩序维护国和中美之间的“非等距离”协调者。应该对日加强沟通宣介工作,充分调动其对华战略认知中的建设性因素,消解不利因素,防止其固化为刻板印象。

Construction of the Image of China by Japanese Think Tanks and Mainstream Media in the Context of International Change

China's image in Japan undergoes profound changes due to the changes of international order,the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and the intensification of strategic competition between China and the United States.Japanese think tanks and mainstream media are more aware of China in the context of changes in the international order,and more in a multilateral framework rather than in a bilateral one.Under the comprehensive force of diverse factors,Japan has formed multiple layers of China's image,such as“rising power”,“rewriter of international order”,a tough and tenacious country under the epidemic situation,and“the imaginary enemy”of the United States with uncertainty.Although it is not necessarily objective,Japan's construction of the image of China is based on the construction of its own identity,which is a maintainer of the current international order and coordinator with“unequal distance”between China and the United States.We should fully mobilize the constructive factors in its cognition of China,eliminate the unfavorable factors,and prevent the image from being stereotyped.