Table 3 Illustrations of five specific topics.

From: Only business, no politics: a triangulated discursive analysis of business newsletters of China’s Belt and Road on domestic social media

Topics

Industrial sectors—Engaged Chinese enterprises—Country of construction

Colors in Fig. 2

2

水电(hydropower)—电建(Power Construction Corporation of China)—菲律宾(Philippines)

Yellow

3

建筑(construction)/公路(highway)—中建(China State Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd)—肯尼亚(Kenya)/柬埔寨(Cambodia)

Purple

4

电力(electricity)—葛洲坝(China’s Gezhouba Group Co., Ltd)/电建(Power Construction Corporation of China)—巴基斯坦(Pakistan)/越南(Vietnam)

Red

5

铁路(railway)—中铁(China Railway Engineering Group Co., Ltd)—马来西亚(Malaysia)/孟加拉国(Bangladesh)/尼日利亚(Nigeria)/老挝(Laos)

Blue

6

基建(infrastructure)—中国港湾(China Harbor Engineering Group Co., Ltd)—印尼(Indonesia)/秘鲁(Peru)

Orange