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China Desk

Chinese official and state-linked defense publication surfaces: the armed forces newspaper, the defense ministry, the state news agency's military desk, and two English-language portals.

3,574 records from 5 sources across 4 institutions, 2026-05-07 to 2026-08-26.

Collecting daily into the production corpus. This is the only mature collection in the project.

The record, as it actually stands

As published.

Source records: 3,574
Analyzed records: 1,335
Awaiting analysis: 2,239
Earliest item: 2026-05-07
Latest item: 2026-08-26
Last successful collection: 2026-08-26
Sources configured: 5
Sources enabled: 5

Counts reflect the stored corpus at this snapshot. "Analyzed" means a model completed a reading of the record — it says nothing about publication. Records awaiting analysis remain part of the record.

Sources

Source	Institution	Authority	Enabled	Records
PLA Daily (解放军报)	CMC Political Work Department	B	Yes	3,089
MOD China (国防部)	Ministry of National Defense	A	Yes	27
Xinhua Military (新华军事)	Xinhua News Agency	C	Yes	0
Global Times — Defense	People's Daily Group	D	Yes	99
China Military Online (EN)	CMC Political Work Department	B	Yes	359

An enabled source is one the pipeline is configured to visit. It is not a promise that a working collector exists for it — see Coverage, where each source's own outcome is recorded every run.

Limits of this desk, stated plainly

Coverage is selective and heavily concentrated in one source.
Not every Chinese official publication surface is implemented. One configured source has no working collector and is reported as such on every run rather than hidden.
Collection was interrupted between 2026-07-17 and 2026-07-24. The gap is preserved, not backfilled.

These are properties of the desk a reader needs before citing it — see Coverage for what each collection run actually returned.

The legacy analytical series

This desk's weekly analysis was published as The PLA Watch under the predecessor masthead China Mil Watch. Every issue keeps its original number, title, date and URL — see The PLA Watch.

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