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Your daily China briefing.
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Follow China’s policy, markets and public attention, with links to the original sources. Read on the site, without an account or an email subscription. Current and dated public editions are free; optional research tools add depth.

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For policy, risk, investment and strategy analystsOfficial releasesFirst-party numbersInstitutional pressPlatform attentionTime & provenance

What you can inspect

Cadence, provenance, memory, a scorecard, and one document.

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    Five editions a day, on Beijing time.

    About 90 official channels are read at 06:00, 10:30, 14:00, 18:30 and 22:00 Beijing time, and the edition is rewritten each time. You read what changed since the last slot, not a morning recap of yesterday.

  2. 02

    Market and policy numbers, with their sources and historical context.

    First-party feeds include the government yield curve, CNY parity, Stock Connect and SGX iron ore. Other series use vendors such as EastMoney and Yahoo. Eligible series are compared with their available 30-day and 90-day history; limited history and stale observations constrain the analysis. Check the source and observation date before using a number.

  3. 03

    Standing dossiers, with cited evidence and saved revisions.

    Topics include property, trade, semiconductors, energy, fiscal stimulus, the platform economy, Taiwan and U.S.-China diplomacy. Read the current published analysis free. Members can inspect available earlier revisions and their evidence. A saved revision records our analysis, not necessarily a change in the underlying policy.

  4. 04

    Forecasts with a written resolution rule and a public scorecard.

    A question does not exist until it says how it resolves. The resolver is deterministic code reading the feed or the government document, never a model, and the track record is public in full, misses and voids included. The track record is still building; a published scorecard is not evidence of established forecasting skill.

  5. 05

    The same document for humans and agents.

    Every edition, dossier and forecast ships as a page and as structured JSON with the same content, plus /llms.txt, an OpenAPI description, a REST API and an MCP endpoint. An agent reads what you read.

The line

The daily read is free. Research tools are optional.

The current Snapshot is public: today's edition in full, the current reading of every dossier, the public forecast board and the public data feeds. Dated public editions are also free to read. Public reading pages carry labelled ad placements; membership is not required to read them. Sign in to use prior Snapshots at every available slot through founding access, alongside dossier revisions, the evidence record, archive Search, Ask, current signal-packet exports and the API, plus the Regions and Institutions views.

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YANGSHAN DEEP-WATER PORT · SHANGHAI
01 / TODAY

FREE

Start with the change, not the recap.

One reading of the day, what moved against baseline, the market snapshot, and the evidence behind every claim.

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GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE · BEIJING
02 / DOSSIERS

FREE, CURRENT READING

Read the line. Track its movement.

Translated releases stay connected to the institution, the original document and the earlier language.

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WAFER FABRICATION · SHANGHAI
03 / MEMORY

PROFESSIONAL

Follow the thread, not just the headline.

Past editions, dossier revisions, the evidence record, Search, Ask, exports and API. See pricing or request an invitation.

Who makes it

A machine that reads, an editor who answers.

Collectors read the sources and a language model writes the first draft under fixed rules and deterministic checks. The editor, Tristan McInnis, sets the source list and the rules, reviews the public edition and answers for corrections. The full method is on the method page; the rules are in the editorial standards.