Abstract
The present study was designed to know, how and in what ways CPEC is being portrayed by Sino-Pak media. For this, content analysis of the 293 CPEC-related posts was performed. The data was collected from Pakistani and Chinese newspapers' official Facebook pages (The News and People's Daily China). The data accumulated by keyword search was categorized and sub-categorized in line with the selected aspects and a coding sheet. Findings revealed, that although the Pakistani media was giving more coverage to CPEC the Chinese media was matchless with 100 % positive coverage in contrast to Pakistan's 47% (this percentage put a question mark on the status of "Press Freedom" in China). Overall, CPEC was portrayed positively in both newspapers with (52%) of positive coverage and (25%) negative. The most covered CPEC aspect was "Strategic" (38%) and media coverage of this aspect highlights the strategic significance of CPEC in regional politics.
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