Marco Rubio is intensifying tensions with China.

Entities

• China (place) gravity 0.0220 · momentum +0.012 · Q148
• Marco Rubio (person) gravity 0.0005 · momentum -0.032 · Q324546

Signals

• edge_weight_recent 42.1
• edge_weight_prior 2
• factor 21.05
• event_count_recent 64
• window_days 30

Confidence (56%) is computed numerically from these signals. The sentence prose was written by an LLM given only the structured signals as input, the LLM never sees or chooses the confidence number.

What would change our mind

Edge weight between China and Marco Rubio returns to its 30-day baseline, or two clean weeks pass with no fresh co-mention from a tier-1 source.

Inversion conditions are a property of the pattern detector, not the LLM. Watch for this signal move and the claim should weaken or be superseded.

Where the contributing events happen

Contributing events (11)

• 2026-08-18 21:45:00 · gdelt · 010 Make public statement · tone +0.77
  Will history reveal secretary marco rubio a articulate statesman as well as a wise strategist U.S. state departments position on political terrorism
  Marco Rubio · China · Venezuela · Washington · D.C.
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• 2026-08-12 18:30:00 · gdelt · 010 Make public statement · tone -1.73
  Marco rubio says spent 90
  Marco Rubio · China
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• 2026-08-12 12:30:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.47
  Marco rubio shares wild story of suspected corpse on air force one
  Turkey · Marco Rubio · China · Beijing · Air Force One
  source ↗
• 2026-08-04 16:45:00 · gdelt · 010 Make public statement · tone -0.51
  Marco rubio gives update on venezuela election timing
  Marco Rubio · Venezuela · Caracas · China · Election
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• 2026-08-03 02:45:00 · gdelt · 040 Consult · tone -1.61
  India china usa quad marco rubio's jaishankar trade galwan foreign policy balance beijing vikram misri security
  Marco Rubio · China · India · Beijing · New Delhi · Quad · Philippines
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• 2026-08-01 09:45:00 · gdelt · 111 Criticize or denounce · tone -7.35
  1410886 marco rubio warns us china conflict would be catastrophic
  Marco Rubio · China · Beijing · China tensions
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• 2026-07-23 04:30:00 · gdelt · 046 Engage in negotiation · tone -0.85
  1409943 marco rubio wang yi hold talks ahead of expected meeting between trump xi
  Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Washington · D.C. · China
  source ↗
• 2026-07-22 19:00:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -1.87
  Secretary of state marco rubio press briefing from asean summit in philippines
  Marco Rubio · China · Philippines · ASEAN · Xi Jinping
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• 2026-07-22 14:30:00 · gdelt · 046 Engage in negotiation · tone -4.86
  Marco rubio
  Marco Rubio · China
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• 2026-07-22 03:30:00 · gdelt · 040 Consult · tone -1.59
  Marco rubio to hold talks with chinas wang yi as regional powers join asean meeting
  Marco Rubio · China · Beijing · ASEAN · Manila
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• 2026-07-22 02:00:00 · gdelt · 111 Criticize or denounce · tone -3.64
  Marco rubio wang yi meet manila after ayungin incident
  Marco Rubio · China · Philippines · Manila · Beijing · Washington · D.C. · United States
  source ↗

Confidence history