The authors develop a quantitative indicator of the Chinese government's policy priorities over a long period of time, which they call the Policy Change Index (PCI) of China.

For the first time in the literature, we develop a quantitative indicator of the Chinese government's policy priorities over a long period of time, which we call the Policy Change Index (PCI) for China. The PCI is a leading indicator of policy changes that covers the period from 1951 to the...

We develop a deep learning algorithm to estimate the severity of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in China by analyzing the language of the People’s Daily, China’s official newspaper. The algorithm uses the 2002–2003 SARS outbreak as the benchmark and learns how the newspaper’s language...