Table 5.

Key adjective collocates associated with the identity labels “China, the United States, and Europe” based on KH Coder’s KWIC Concordance analysis

Identity label	China/中国	US/美国	Europe/欧洲
Chinese corpus	透明, 有力, 有效, 重要, 出色, 了不起, 鲜明, 负责任, 强大	严重、不同、不力、冷漠、失实、失望、微薄、残忍、沉重、疯狂、痛心、自大	严重、剧烈、迅猛、异常、严峻、平缓、相似、缓慢
English corpus	International, global, willing, ready, timely, positive, effective, responsible, comprehensive	Former, senior, presidential, ineffective, erratic, irresponsible, unwilling, volatile, provocative, worst-hit	Worst-hit, illusionary, worst-affected, slower, disruptive, affected, reciprocal, hardest-hit

These adjective collocates are selected based on KH Coder’s KWIC Concordance analysis which uses the scale of Mutual Information to indicate the collocation between the node words (i.e. identity labels) and their adjective collocates