Once a day the newsroom reads public feeds from outside mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The list runs across Japan, South Korea, Russia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas: NHK and the Japan Times, Yonhap and the Korea Herald, TASS and Meduza, Nikkei, CNA, Dawn, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and dozens more. Only the free feed is read, the headline and the summary, not the article page. A headline is kept only when it is about China. State agencies and exiled newsrooms are labeled, so a dispatch can say which kind of outlet it is quoting.

Nine desks each write one dispatch, or stay silent. The editor-in-chief orders the front. The editorial board writes the column. Both editions read the same wire. They are not translations of each other.

Mandarin is written by DeepSeek, then Kimi (Moonshot), then Claude. English is written by Claude, then DeepSeek, then Kimi. A model with no key is skipped. The article records which model filed.

If the foreign wire has fewer than three China headlines, that day's edition is not published. The paper would rather miss a day than write China from memory.

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