Based on the theories of affective affordance and integrated process model of framing, this study examined how social media editors framed the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis and the associated framing effects. The study collected 6,145 related news postings on Facebook and used LDA topic modeling to identify news frames. Findings indicate that seven news frames were constructed by social media editors. The frames include “military exercises of People’s Liberation Army,” “heightened tensions,” “Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan,” “the triangular relations among U.S., China, and Taiwan,” “Taiwan Strait issues,” “economic impact of the visit,” and “responses to Pelosi’s visit.” Furthermore, the frames of “Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan” and “heightened tensions” elicited the highest number of love reactions and angry reactions, respectively. The study also found that the frame of “Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan” elicited both a higher number of love reactions and angry reactions, indicating the presence of the effects of framing contests. The current study contributes to framing theory by extending the concepts of frame builders and framing effects. Moreover, the study fills the research gap in framing theory by introducing the concept of “affectivecognitive framing” developed from the analysis of real-world metadata from Facebook.