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China declares firm support for Cuba's sovereignty

Rank
Ran
43h
Updated
5d ago
Closed
Outlets
5
Regions
3
Countries
5
Languages
5

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South China Morning Post Hong Kong · English 28 Sept, 21:21 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Melayu (1) · Русский (1) · العربية (1) · 中文 (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 44 hours.

2 4 6
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: China News Service, 28 Sept, 07:49 UTC.
  2. Second country: Russia, with Kommersant.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Kommersant.
  4. Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

44 of 44 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

60%20%20%

  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 60%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • International 1 outlet · 20%

First movers

  1. China News Service 28 Sept, 07:49 UTC
  2. Kommersant +2h 32m
  3. South China Morning Post +13h 33m
  4. INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed +26h 13m
  5. Utusan Malaysia +43h 41m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 1 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 3: China, Hong Kong, Malaysia. Europe 1: Russia. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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
Arabic, English, Malay, Russian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article China News Service, 28 Sept 2026, 07:49 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 07:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 03:30 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 Americas, Cuba. 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
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.
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
28 Sept 2026 327 3.22 3 3 3 3 3.3

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 28 Sept, 07:50 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 03:30 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 30 Sept, 03:30 UTC
    China sokong Cuba hadapi tekanan Trump
  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 28 Sept, 21:21 UTC
    China pledges to ‘firmly support’ Cuba as US escalates pressure on Havana
  • China News Service China 28 Sept, 07:49 UTC
    外交部:坚定支持古巴维护国家主权 反对外来干涉

Europe 1 outlet

  • Kommersant Russia 28 Sept, 10:21 UTC
    Китай заявил о «твердой поддержке» суверенитета Кубы

International 1 outlet

  • INTLAl-Araby Al-Jadeed International 29 Sept, 10:02 UTC
    الصين تتعهد بدعم كوبا "بقوة" في ظل تصعيد الضغط الأميركي
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