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.

Live — collecting

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

The record, as it actually stands

As published.

787 records from 5 sources across 4 institutions, 2026-05-07 to 2026-10-15.

Source records: 787
Analyzed records: 633
Not analyzed: 154
Earliest item: 2026-05-07
Latest item: 2026-10-15
Last successful collection: 2026-10-15
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. "Not analyzed" includes records awaiting screening, screened out, and incomplete analysis; it is not an analysis queue. Read the four processing states.

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China Desk by publication week

Records this desk holds per publication week, from the week of its first record. Collection volume, not activity or output; a short bar is a small week in this record, which can mean a quiet source or a collection gap. Each bar opens that week's page, which lists every desk's records.

Records held that week Known collection interruptionSnapshot boundary

Sources

Every source declared for this desk, whether it is enabled, and how much of the record it accounts for.
Source	Institution	Authority	Enabled	Records
PLA Daily (解放军报)	CMC Political Work Department	B	Yes	315
MOD China (国防部)	Ministry of National Defense	A	Yes	150
Xinhua Military (新华军事)	Xinhua News Agency	C	Yes	128
Global Times — Defense	People's Daily Group	D	Yes	33
China Military Online (EN)	CMC Political Work Department	B	Yes	161

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.
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.

Earlier Briefs

This desk's earlier weekly analysis is part of Indo-Pacific Record Briefs. It was first published as The PLA Watch under the predecessor masthead China Mil Watch, and every issue keeps its original number, title, date and URL — see Indo-Pacific Record Briefs.

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