{
  "declared_links": {
    "economic_signal_ids": [
      "believability",
      "china-econ",
      "cny-fix-gap",
      "data-darkness",
      "stock-connect"
    ],
    "relation": "topic-surface-only",
    "scan_signal_ids": []
  },
  "dek": "China’s integrated circuit (IC) exports surged 136 per cent year on year in September to US$45 billion, exceeding the 108 per cent growth rate in the first nine months of the year in a sign of the country’s rising influence in the global semiconductor supply chain. In September, China exported 32.7 billion units of ICs",
  "desk": "technology",
  "event_id": "event-b92c8259c354c374db2ad4c9",
  "evidence_groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "south-china-morning-post-editorial",
      "roles": [
        "media"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "scmp-china-economy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "evidence_refs": [
    {
      "independence_group": "south-china-morning-post-editorial",
      "item_id": "item-87624963bd2db14168a9f4fd",
      "published_at": "2026-10-14T08:30:11Z",
      "role": "media",
      "source_id": "scmp-china-economy",
      "source_name": "South China Morning Post — China Economy",
      "title": "China chip exports jump 136% to US$45b as AI frenzy jacks up prices",
      "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3370858/china-chip-exports-jump-136-us45b-ai-frenzy-jacks-prices",
      "version_id": "itemv-6538454d57e7bfdb94cab509"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_strength": "single-source",
  "headline": "China chip exports jump 136% to US$45b as AI frenzy jacks up prices",
  "lead": false,
  "lead_reason": "Current single-source metadata is retained but not promoted as a lead.",
  "limitations": [
    "Palimpsest retained only feed title, canonical link, time, and a bounded plain-text excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.",
    "The evidence-strength label describes source structure, not truth, intent, impact, or causation.",
    "Declared instrument links are topical pointers until a separate scan or economic observation is joined by time and method.",
    "Title-similarity clustering can miss differently worded or cross-language accounts and can join closely worded updates.",
    "This dossier currently contains one independent evidence group and remains explicitly attributed."
  ],
  "mutation": {
    "kind": "unchanged",
    "previous_version_id": "eventv-3253f0b084b6b6d0d4b1973b"
  },
  "published_at": "2026-10-14T08:30:11Z",
  "reported_facts": [
    {
      "attribution": "South China Morning Post — China Economy",
      "evidence_item_id": "item-87624963bd2db14168a9f4fd",
      "published_at": "2026-10-14T08:30:11Z",
      "statement": "South China Morning Post — China Economy published “China chip exports jump 136% to US$45b as AI frenzy jacks up prices”."
    }
  ],
  "topics": [
    "economy",
    "technology"
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-14T08:30:11Z",
  "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/wire/event-b92c8259c354c374db2ad4c9/",
  "version_id": "eventv-3253f0b084b6b6d0d4b1973b"
}
