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Taiwan's president says Taiwan will not give up freedom despite Chinese pressure

Rank
Running
33h
Updated
21h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
9
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
7

TimesLIVE South Africa · English 10 Oct, 06:45 UTC

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Read it also in Deutsch (3) · Polski (1) · Português (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · Српски (1) · বাংলা (1) · +5 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 9 after 34 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: ERT, 10 Oct, 03:44 UTC.
  2. Second country: South Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  3. Second region: Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 10 Oct, 06:45 UTC.
  5. Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

34 of 34 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

67%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 4 countries · 67%

First movers

  1. ERT 10 Oct, 03:44 UTC
  2. TimesLIVE +3h 1m
  3. Frankfurter Allgemeine +3h 41m
  4. Die Zeit +4h 20m
  5. Wirtualna Polska +6h 13m

Latest arrivals

  1. N1 10 Oct, 16:05 UTC
  2. Tagesschau 10 Oct, 14:22 UTC
  3. Daily Janakantha 10 Oct, 13:17 UTC
  4. CNN Brasil 10 Oct, 12:14 UTC
  5. Wirtualna Polska 10 Oct, 09:57 UTC

The figures

Coverage
9 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 2 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 1: Bangladesh. Europe 4: Germany, Greece, Poland, Serbia. 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
Bangla, German, Greek, English, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article ERT, 10 Oct 2026, 03:44 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 03:50 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 16:05 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 Asia-Pacific, Taiwan. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On 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
0.17, as of now. 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.
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
10 Oct 2026 144 3.93 9 7 9 7 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 10 Oct, 03:50 UTC · Updated 16:05 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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  • N1 Serbia 10 Oct, 16:05 UTC
    Tajvanski lider poručio da se uoprkos ponašanju Kine njegova zemlja neće odreći slobode
  • Tagesschau Germany 10 Oct, 14:22 UTC
    Nationalfeiertag in Taiwan: "Wir werden unsere Freiheit nicht aufgeben"
  • Daily Janakantha Bangladesh 10 Oct, 13:17 UTC
    তাইওয়ানের স্বাধীনতা বিসর্জন দেব না, জাতীয় দিবসে লাইয়ের ঘোষণা
  • CNN Brasil Brazil 10 Oct, 12:14 UTC
    Alvo de pressão da China, Taiwan diz que não abrirá mão da liberdade
  • Die Zeit Germany 10 Oct, 10:30 UTC
    Taiwan: Taiwans Präsident fordert klare Haltung gegen Chinas Drohungen
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    • Taiwan: Taiwans Präsident fordert klare Haltung gegen Chinas Drohungen 10 Oct, 08:04 UTC
  • Wirtualna Polska Poland 10 Oct, 09:57 UTC
    Prezydent Tajwanu grzmi. "Nie będzie zgody na podporządkowanie Chinom"
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany 10 Oct, 07:25 UTC
    Nationalfeiertag: Taiwan fordert von Demokratien Unterstützung gegen China
  • TimesLIVE South Africa 10 Oct, 06:45 UTC
    Taiwan cherishes peace but will not give up freedom, president says
  • ERT Greece 10 Oct, 03:44 UTC
    Πρόεδρος Ταϊβάν: «Αγαπάμε την ειρήνη, αλλά δεν θα εγκαταλείψουμε την ελευθερία μας»
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