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China

News coverage about China accounts for 12.15% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is up 8.7% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is +0.61 — neutral-to-positive. Coverage is surging: 11.8 standard deviations above the trailing average.

CN · CHN · Asia · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
12.15%
of monitored articles
Week over week
+8.7%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
+0.61
neutral-to-positive
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

China coverage volume: 91 days, latest 12.15% on 2026-08-200.0010.020.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

China coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone 0.61 on 2026-08-20+10-1May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in China: 87 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.00100200May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Diplomacy (151/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in China: 87 days, latest 151.00 on 2026-08-200.0012502500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (36/day latest)

Coercive events located in China: 87 days, latest 36.00 on 2026-08-200.005001000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to China, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 37% of the coverage about China came from outlets based in China — the rest was written from abroad (158,010 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about China from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 47.88 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about China produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Beijing (861)
  • Shanghai (461)
  • Hangzhou (209)
  • Shenzhen (208)
  • Guangzhou (150)
  • Guangdong (115)
  • Yangtze River (88)
  • Chongqing (84)
  • Shandong (78)
  • Nanjing (73)
  • Chengdu (72)
  • Xinjiang (63)

Places named in coverage about China on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about China

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$19.50T
World Bank, 2025
Population
1.41B
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
38.0%
World Bank, 2025
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
1.7%
World Bank, 2024

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
0
within the country
Refugees abroad
153,962
originating from China
Refugees hosted
230
from other countries
Asylum seekers
482
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

Coverage share measures articles published by China-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).