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Research products

Research products

Open, continuously updated research tools built from my work on economic communication and China's international image.

Global China Economic Opinion Monitor & Economic Securitization Index

Live · v1.0 · weekly (Chinese interface)

Global China Economic Opinion Monitor & Economic Securitization Index

Weekly monitor of how global English-language media cover China's economy.

  • Data: GDELT news headlines, 2019 Q4 onward; URL-based series back to 2015.
  • Index: weekly securitization index with confidence intervals and robustness checks.
  • Analysis: issue rankings, country agendas and 36 narrative trackers.
  • Updated every Monday; methods are public.
GDELTSecuritizationComputational communicationLLM-assistedPythonGitHub Actions
Open dashboard Methods
Central Economic Work Conference Yearbook

Live · v1.0 · updated yearly (Chinese interface)

Central Economic Work Conference Yearbook

A year-by-year reading of China's Central Economic Work Conference communiqués since 1994.

  • New formulations: 101 hand-curated new policy phrases, traced to first use, uptake in the next Government Work Report, and later reuse.
  • Priorities: the order of key tasks each year, grouped into policy areas, plus fiscal and monetary stance since 1994.
  • Information ideas: how the conference talks about expectations, confidence, public opinion and communication.
  • Full-text search across all communiqués; updated after each December conference.
Policy textConcept historyEconomic communicationPython
Open yearbook Methods