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Giant pandas given as diplomatic gifts between Trump and Xi

Rank
Ran: 38h
Updated: 4d ago
Final
Outlets: 4
Regions: 3
Countries: 3
Languages: 3

South China Morning Post Hong Kong · English 1 Oct, 22:00 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Português (2) · +1 language

Read at South China Morning Post

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: G1, 30 Sept, 07:00 UTC.
Second country: Austria, with Der Standard.
Second region: Europe, with Der Standard.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 2 outlets · 1 country · 50%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%

First movers

G1 30 Sept, 07:00 UTC
Der Standard +5h
CNN Brasil +31h 25m
South China Morning Post +39h

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: China sends two giant pandas to US zoo, 26 to 28 Sept 2026, 80 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 1: Hong Kong. Europe 1: Austria. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: German, English, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article G1, 30 Sept 2026, 07:00 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 07:20 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 22:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues China sends two giant pandas to US zoo. Continued by Ping Ping and Fu Shuang arrive at Zoo Atlanta. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

1 Oct 2026 333 3.70 4 3 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 07:20 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 22:00 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Covered by 4 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 1 outlet