Indo-Pacific Record

Official defense and security texts, preserved as published and analyzed in context.

Collection is current; analysis is behind it. Records dated after 2026-08-24 are stored and awaiting screening. What these dates mean.

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PLA Daily (解放军报)

Published by CMC Political Work Department (中央军事委员会政治工作部). Part of the China Desk, currently live — collecting.

What is declared about this source, and what the record shows.
Source identifierpla_daily
DeskChina Desk
InstitutionCMC Political Work Department
Source typeArmed forces newspaper
Authority tierB
Original languagezh-Hans
Official base URLhttps://www.81.cn
Enabled for collectionYes
Records held3,089
Share of the whole record86.4% — derived from the stored counts, not declared
Earliest item2026-05-07
Latest item2026-08-26
Most recent run outcomeCollected — Reached the listing and stored new items.

How this source is positioned

Authority tier B describes how close this publication sits to the institution's authorized public position. It is not a reliability score, and nothing here treats it as one. The source type — armed forces newspaper — describes what kind of body publishes it.

What a record from this source can support

That this institution published a specific item on a specific date, and what its original text was at the time it was retrieved. Not that the institution believes it, not that a described capability exists, and not that coverage of this source is complete — see Coverage for what each run actually returned, and Methodology for the limits.