Entity

China

The world's most populous great power and second-largest economy; a central actor in trade, technology, and security.

As of 5 Nov 2026Last evidence 5 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Donald Trump's political humbling after US midterms signals short-term gain, long-term pain for China

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • SoftBank acquisition of ABB robot unit blocked by China regulator that opposed Meta’s Manus deal: FT

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 4 Nov 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • US midterms: Democrats' victory puts Trump's China diplomacy to the test

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Thailand: Halt imminent forcible return of two Uyghur men to China

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 14 events and claims involving China

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 640 mentions on 5 Nov 2026, against 626 on 15 Oct 2026 (+2%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from rising to steady on 2 Nov 2026 (1 change recorded since 28 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 4 claims first reported since 4 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will China invade Taiwan by December 31, 2027?” moved from 12% to 10% Yes since 21 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

18,720 documents · 764 publishers · 7% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 5 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.074: about 93% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 2 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside China

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIUnited StatesTrumpRussiaIranIndiaJapanSouth KoreaOilEuropean Union

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 640 mentions on 5 Nov 2026 with 626 on 15 Oct 2026 (+2%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +29% from 21 Sept 2026 to 5 Nov 2026, between 137 and 795 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions China, day by day.

Market price, cited

10% Yes

priced 5 Nov 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 12% → 10% Yes (-2pts, from 21 Sept 2026 to 5 Nov 2026)

on “Will China invade Taiwan by December 31, 2027?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about China

“Will China invade Taiwan by December 31, 2027?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: Geopolitics Desk

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving China

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Donald Trump's political humbling after US midterms signals short-term gain, long-term pain for China

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • SoftBank acquisition of ABB robot unit blocked by China regulator that opposed Meta’s Manus deal: FT

    Reported claim · first reported 5 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • The AI model race

    Registered event · reported 29 Mar 2026 to 4 Nov 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • US midterms: Democrats' victory puts Trump's China diplomacy to the test

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Thailand: Halt imminent forcible return of two Uyghur men to China

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Nvidia tells cloud clients to sell at least 51% of services to non-Chinese firms

    Reported claim · first reported 3 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • War, tariffs and China: What the US midterms mean for the Asia-Pacific

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Taiwan says China harassing shipping with east coast patrol

    Reported claim · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Global criticism during COVID-19 hardened China’s attitude towards world: Foreign Secretary Misri

    Reported claim · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • China’s Communist Party calls for a crackdown on corruption that uses crypto and blockchain

    Reported claim · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Iranian ‘ghost fleet’ filmed evading US blockade en route to China, UANI says

    Reported claim · first reported 1 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • BJP leaders rationalising Chinese actions, says Congress after Arunachal CM’s remarks

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Economic indicator: china & GDP

    Registered event · reported 22 Aug 2026 to 20 Oct 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

Walk the record from China

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

China

Entity.

Evidence
18,720 documents · 764 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 12 Mar 2026, last seen 5 Nov 2026
Measured
7% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
5 Nov 2026
24 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (2)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names China, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about China

Markets whose question is about China or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to China and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

No other open market in the record is materially about China: none names it as the subject of its question or as a party in it.

2 more open markets joined to China but not about it
  • 31% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Beijing be 15°C on November 6?”

    Polymarket · priced 5 Nov 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 6 Nov 2026

  • 46% Yes

    “Will the highest temperature in Beijing be 18°C on November 5?”

    Polymarket · priced 5 Nov 2026

    Relation: about a place in it · a weather or score reading at a place: about a place at most, never about the subject · closes 5 Nov 2026

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will China’s CPI increase by between 0.7% and 0.8% over the 12 month period ending in October 2026?” (closed 31 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 2 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 13 Oct 2026

1 change recorded since 28 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about ChinaWatch China

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 5 Nov 2026.