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As such, it lends itself to social network analysis (SNA) which aims to discover relation patterns and structures among such social actors as people, organizations, and political entities. This article proposes an integration of SNA techniques into CDS and explores this possibility via an example in diachronic study on international relations represented in news reporting on China in The New York Times between 1980 and 2020 by examining subject\u2013direct object pairs to approach the target relations between national actors. It is shown that the coupling of these two approaches effectively reveals international relation networks surrounding key national actors, based on which detailed linguistic and discoursal analysis further sheds light on the underlying ideological and socio-political factors in the news reports. 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