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Palimpsest / China and regional evidence

Follow the economy.Read the record.

Trace China’s economic observations and changes in the public record. Inspect the original sources, compare reported periods and carry the evidence into a research note or an existing data workflow.

Open China evidence Connect API or MCP Open the weekly evidence brief

Read the weekly brief or register your research interest in Telegram. Starting the bot also subscribes you to daily updates; /stop ends them. A click is not counted as a subscriber.

Keep the source in view. Publisher reports, observed changes and derived analysis retain their own evidence labels.

Reproduce. Clone the repo and run python3 scripts/reproduce_all.py. Exit 0 means the sealed chains and derived scorecards still match.

Current acquisition route

Evidence roles stay separate

China situation desk

One view. Three evidence layers. Limits intact.

Open attributed reporting, reviewed public circulation context and Palimpsest measurements in the same dossier. Context never silently becomes corroboration.

3 declared evidence roles
Open
Read the current deskpublisher · social · measurement
Limit
Topic overlap is context, not article verification. Missing evidence remains a visible gap, never a zero.
Method
Deterministic synthesis from attributed reports and checked public records; no generative summary is published as evidence.

Start with a research question

Three ways into the evidence.

China economic health

Go beneath national headlines

Compare industries, city housing and source tables. Keep each observation’s reference period and definition visible.

Open the economic desk → Shared data library

Compare countries and histories

Explore drugs, arms and informal-economy indicators with maps, time series and downloadable source records.

Explore the data → CPEC, Balochistan & BRI

Follow the regional questions

Examine national finance, project scrutiny and local reporting. Shared geography keeps the evidence connected without establishing a causal claim.

Open regional research →

Continue from the China desk

Inspect, follow or reproduce.

The primary route stays focused. Adjacent tools remain available when the evidence task requires them.

ReadThe current China situation deskOpen evidence view → TraceA deleted post or changed public recordOpen evidence trails → MeasureDefined China-facing public signalsOpen observatory → CheckA suspicious Telegram messageOpen checker → VerifyA sealed AI evaluation runOpen registry → MapBelt and Road projects, economics and local impactsOpen coverage ledger → BuildWith the read-only API or MCP serverOpen developer tools → FollowOnly the feed you actually needChoose RSS or JSON → CiteA specific signal on a specific dayOpen citation pack →

Live publication state

Current results, not product claims.

Each row separates what the system currently reports from the file that supports it and the sentence that keeps it bounded.

AI eval registry

Sealed runs: 647

Receipt

Verify the chainRegistry reading 2026-10-17T08:26:54.291756Z

Limit

A valid chain makes later edits detectable. It does not prove that an evaluation construct is valid.

China observatory

Fresh at assessment: 54/98

Receipt

Inspect every datasetAssessed 2026-10-17T23:55:10Z. See each dataset for its coverage and reference period.

Limit

These are measurements of defined public signals. Movement is not proof of intent or a single cause.

Source index

Published reports: 588

Receipt

Open the labeled indexPublished edition 2026-10-17T23:55:10Z. Attributed publisher records; source coverage is not inferred.

Limit

A publisher report is not a Palimpsest finding. Single-source entries are labeled and link back to the original.

Product boundary

What this is for.

If you only need a newspaper article, read the publisher. Use Palimpsest when you need a measurement, a source relationship, a revision trail, a machine-readable record, or a clear statement of what remains unknown.

PublishesOwn measurements, scoped analysis, receipts and public data
IndexesAttributed publisher reports without relabeling them as verified facts
Does notReplace original reporting, infer motive from co-movement, or hide failed inputs

Syndication

Every feed has one job.

The directory states who each feed is for, what it adds, and what it cannot establish before you subscribe.

Live eval resultsNew sealed-run findings and revisionsRSS Eval methods journalHuman-readable method changes and failuresRSS Measurement updatesPalimpsest's own current instrument resultsRSS Source index + measurementsClearly labeled publisher reports and instrument updatesRSS
Compare all RSS and JSON feeds → Read the eval methods journal →

External evidence relay · Dated fallback

What the 2025 INCB precursor report says about China-linked incidents: and what it does not prove

Nine reported incidents, nearly five tonnes, and one crucial limit: reported origin is not causal attribution.

Data as of
Incidents
9
Upper-bound mass
nearly 5 t
Visual citation coverage
100%

Read the NarcoScope investigation · Open NarcoScope

Evidence network

Useful together. Never collapsed together.

These are direct routes to separate public tools. A relationship between records is not a merged claim.

NF

NoiseFloor coverage research

Compare how source-coverage counts move together with NoiseFloor 0.4.0. Inspect a correlation spectrum and a separate synthetic Dyson simulation. Coverage co-movement does not establish a market factor, censorship or causation.

Open the research workbench · API and local Python kit

SS

ScamShield reviewed bridge

scamshield-intelligence-pack/v1, release 2026-08-08.2, maps 18 public sources to 8 typologies. HUMAN_REVIEW_REQUIRED is mandatory. The levels describe evidence relationships, not guilt. Raw Telegram text is hashed and privacy-minimized candidates are never auto-published.

Public pack · ScamShield bot

Evidence and review

Sources, methods and review status.

Published surfaces distinguish original sources, deterministic analysis, machine-authored text and human review. The cited evidence, methods and review status define what each record supports.

The evaluation registry binds model comparisons to declared prompts, controls and retained response evidence. Its assurance report separates verified integrity from validation and replication that remain incomplete. Inspect the machine-readable assurance report.

See what changed after feedback Inspect the source Fund independent validation