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Guancha (观察者网)

From China, in Chinese

High-traffic Shanghai commentary portal, strongly nationalist, Simplified Chinese.

Website
guancha.cn
How we read it
Through Google News, then the publisher's own page.
Read in
Asia
Reading health
Read 11 of 14 articles we tried, 3 other error.267 headlines found in total.
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Status
In use, last checked 2026-10-05.

Articles we’ve used

heat 3 critical wire copy

Russian Foreign Ministry: Military Exercises Japan Takes Part In Are No Longer Purely Defensive

俄外交部:日本参与的军演已非纯粹防御性质

Relaying Russian Foreign Ministry and RIA Novosti statements, Guancha frames Japan's fielding of standoff missiles, Keen Sword 27 and the planned US Typhon/HIMARS move to Kadena as a militarization drive under Takaichi that is no longer purely defensive.

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heat 5 critical

Just 110 km from Taiwan island, the US and Japan want to deploy anti-ship missiles here, which may anger China

“距台岛仅110公里,美日想在这里部署反舰导弹,或激怒中方”

Guancha reports, via Kyodo and Bloomberg, that the US will deploy NMESIS anti-ship missiles to Yonaguni for the first time during a Japan-US exercise, framing it as provocative; it closes with the Chinese Foreign Ministry accusing Japan of remilitarization and neo-militarism.

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heat 1 favourable

After the Deadly Flood Recedes: Straw Effigies Stand in at Funerals for Bodies That Cannot Be Found

夺命洪流退去之后:葬礼用草人代替找不到的遗体

A sympathetic, human-centred feature (reposted from The Paper) on the August 2026 Langtang flood disaster in Nepal, covering the failed early warning, bereaved families' improvised funerals, relief gaps, politics under the Shah government, and climate injustice. Chinese involvement appears favourably (shared warnings, the "Mazu" system, Chinese-backed solar plant) and Nepal's China-India balancing is noted.

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heat 2 mixed

Kerung Port Washed Away – Nepal's Losses Actually Far Exceed the US-Iran War?

吉隆口岸被冲毁,尼泊尔损失竟远超美伊战争?

Guancha uses the Kerung/Rasuwagadhi debris-flow disaster to tally Nepal's economic losses (claimed equal to 2–3 US-Iran wars in GDP-growth terms), stress Nepal's dependence on Chinese goods and the northern route, and argue China should export disaster-resilience "certainty" as soft power to win Nepal's long-term trust.

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heat 2 neutral

Two New Zealand warships transit the Taiwan Strait; PLA tracked and kept watch on them throughout

新西兰两艘舰艇过航台湾海峡,解放军对其全程跟监警戒

Only the headline is available. It says two NZ naval vessels sailed through the Taiwan Strait and the PLA shadowed and monitored them the whole way. That is the standard Chinese-media framing of the PLA as vigilant and in control. The article text itself was not captured.

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heat 0 neutral wire copy

New Zealand Foreign Minister's spokesperson: New Zealand has held no discussions with the EU about becoming an "associate member state"

新西兰外交部长发言人:新西兰并未与欧盟就成为“准成员国”进行过任何讨论

Reports that a spokesperson for NZ Foreign Minister Peters denied any talks with the EU on NZ becoming an "associate member state", set against the EU's Canada proposal, Trump's tariff threat and Metsola's remarks on Australia and NZ.

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