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Built on datasets anyone can pull: customs records, parcel counts, urbanisation, platform hot lists, model releases.
- Provincial GDP summed against the national figure Data and the world·2026-10-11 ·11 min read
Add up China's 31 provincial GDP figures and the total does not match the national one. The gap is computable, and the statistics office explains it.
- The Chinese open-weights release timeline, dated AI and engineering·2026-10-09 ·12 min read
Sixty-seven open-weight releases from Chinese labs, each with a date I could trace to a primary source — plus the eleven candidates I dropped, and why.
- China's parcel count and the world's, side by side Data and the world·2026-10-09 ·9 min read
China's express volume and the world's e-commerce parcel totals measure different things. A year-by-year table with a source and a date on every number.
- One commodity, two customs records Data and the world·2026-10-09 ·9 min read
The same lithium-ion battery shipments counted by the exporter and by the importer. The money nearly matches. The kilograms do not.
- Two urbanisation rates for one country Data and the world·2026-10-09 ·9 min read
The statistics office says 67.89 per cent of China lives in a town or city; the World Bank says 66.34. Neither answers my question about one county.
- Twenty hot lists, no API keys AI and engineering·2026-10-08 ·5 min read
An aggregator that collects 20 trending lists every night. Six sources broke in ways worth keeping a record of, and one of them is gone for good.