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Query
How they overlap
Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on Pete Hegseth that mention China.
8.0% of the 50 articles on Pete Hegseth also mention China, as do 3.9% of the 102 articles on China.
- Left-leaning1 of 10 articles
- 10.0%
- Least biased0 of 18 articles
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning3 of 22 articles
- 13.6%
Who picked it up when
Washington Examiner mentioned it first (Oct 23, 2026, 7:20 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 2 hours later. No least biased outlet mentioned it.
One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
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Results
4 articles mention Pete Hegseth and China in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Washington Times | Pentagon calls China's Confucius Institutes a national security threatThe Washington Times The Pentagon is designating China's Confucius Institutes as threats to U.S. national security for their role in malign activities at American universities, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. | 0.55 | |
| The Guardian | Pentagon designates China-backed campus cultural centers a threat to US national securityThe Guardian Defense secretary Pete Hegseth alleges Confucius Institutes operating in disguise on US university campuses The US defense department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known as Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, defense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday. Washington has long accused Confucius Institutes of being Chinese propaganda tools and has taken steps to crack down on them. Continue reading... | 0.60 | |
| Newsmax | Pentagon Labels Confucius Institutes Security ThreatNewsmax The War Department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known as Confucius Institutes as a threat to U.S. national security, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday. | 0.55 | |
| Washington Examiner | Hegseth announces dismantling of Chinese ‘sleeper organizations’ at universitiesWashington Examiner The Pentagon has dismantled 80 Chinese “propaganda cells” at colleges and universities across the United States in the past two months, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Friday. In a video posted to X, Hegseth talked about “Confucius Institutes” at American higher education institutions, saying that although Congress has acted to restrict the Chinese-backed […] | 0.70● |
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Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles. The search icon searches for Pete Hegseth and that keyword instead of China, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
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| The Guardian | 0.2% | 1 | 632 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.3% | 1 | 290 |
| The Washington Times | 0.3% | 1 | 322 |
| Newsmax | 0.4% | 1 | 235 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased0 of 8 sources
- 0.0%
- Right-leaning3 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Lean index +4.7: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
2 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.