The British Media’s Opinion on China during COVID-19 Pandemic from the Perspective of Big Data : A Corpus-Based Study on British newspaper the Sun

Big data offers a new perspective to study international relations. As an analysis method based on big data, a corpus-based study can help analyze international politics. The COVID-19 pandemic causes a tremendous challenge to the international public opinion environment and national image of China, in which the news media played a crucial role. This study selected the British mainstream media-the Sun and outlined China's national image in the UK in the era of the pandemic by collecting the China-related reports during the COVID-19. The paper used corpus as an instrument to study this question. It is clear that the news reported by British media on the topic of China's anti-pandemic action is patently biased with ideological prejudice. The conclusion of this study would be useful in helping China to repair, rebuild and reconstruct the national imagine and be beneficial to the Sino-UK relationship in the post-pandemic era.