China news API
Coverage about China from 1574 distinct publishers, in whatever language
it was reported. Pass country=CH to filter.
What coverage of China looks like
Coverage divides sharply by publisher origin — mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and diaspora outlets frame the same event differently enough that an unscoped query blends incompatible perspectives into one feed.
The media landscape
State-affiliated outlets, commercial portals and Hong Kong and Taiwan publishers coexist in this filter with materially different editorial constraints. Financial and industrial reporting is strongest in the commercial business press; policy coverage carries the most signal in the official outlets precisely because what is said there is deliberate. Reading the two as one undifferentiated stream loses most of the information.
Does this cover articles published in China, or about it?
About it. The country filter matches the places an article is about, so a wire
piece about China filed from London is in scope and a China outlet writing
about somewhere else is not. To filter by where the publisher is based, use
publisher_country instead, and combine the two when you want domestic
reporting about the domestic market.
How do I filter news to China?
Combine with publisher_country or an outlet set whenever framing matters. Trade, manufacturing and supply-chain reporting is unusually specific and typically days ahead of English coverage.
GET /search?country=CH&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20Identifiers are FIPS 10-4, not ISO 3166 — why that matters.
What catches people out with China coverage?
Simplified and Traditional characters do not match each other, so a Chinese-language query in one script silently misses coverage in the other. Combine the country filter with language rather than relying on it alone, and expect the volume of international commentary about China to exceed domestic reporting in an unscoped result set by a wide margin. Volume also responds to policy announcement cycles rather than only to events, producing spikes that are administrative in origin. Industrial and trade reporting carries specifics — capacity figures, shipment volumes, named facilities — that translated summaries reduce to a sentence, which is the main reason to query this market directly rather than waiting.
Recent coverage
Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
- China emerging as long-term AI winner despite semiconductor market volatility: Jefferies
- China emerging as long-term AI winner despite semiconductor market volatility: Jefferies
- Sainsbury's sells Argos to retail specialists in £120m deal | Maldon and Burnham Standard
- Starbucks Raises Its Full-Year Guidance as Comparable Store Sales Jump 7.9%. Here's What Investors Need to Know.
- Reading China's Pacific Missile Test
- 4 bodies recovered after avalanche on Pakistan mountain; Nepal's Nirmal Purja, who led 10-member climbing team among missing
- Sainsbury's sells Argos to retail specialists in £120m deal
- SNP demand release of Joani Reid spy probe details
Which outlets cover China most?
The most active publisher on this country is china.com at roughly
6% of the coverage, and the three busiest
— china.com, baidu.com, 163.com — carry about 16% between them.
That share is worth reading before the volume figure: concentrated coverage
means a large result count can still be a small number of newsrooms. Combine
country with source to narrow to publishers you trust,
or with language to separate domestic reporting from international.
china.com · baidu.com · 163.com · cfi.net.cn · sina.com.cn · zol.com.cn · itbear.com.cn · cna.com.tw · udn.com · cnfol.com · ifeng.com · jrj.com.cn · eastmoney.com · ltn.com.tw
Cities with their own coverage
Places inside China that carry enough coverage to filter on individually,
using city.
city=Beijing— 1.1k articles, 399 outletscity=Shanghai— 833 articles, 312 outlets
What this market is best for
Best for manufacturing capacity, component supply, trade policy and technology industrial detail, typically days ahead of translated coverage and with specifics that summaries drop. Weakest for anything requiring independent scrutiny of domestic institutions. Use it as a leading indicator on industry and pair it elsewhere for verification.
Narrowing further
Two constraints do most of the work on this axis. Adding a language separates domestic reporting from international commentary about China, which an unscoped country query returns together. Adding a signal range with a lower bound narrows to articles written in a particular register — supply disruption, financial stress, conflict — rather than to articles that merely mention the subject.
# domestic-language coverage only
GET /search?country=CH&language=<iso639-3>&mode=hybrid
# supply-chain risk language, about this country
GET /search?country=CH&signal=signal_supply_disruption&signal_min=0.2Counts are provisional pending a snapshot taken against the API. Outlets and headlines are real.