Beijing and Iran are intensifying cooperation in response to challenges in oil supply due to external pressures.

Entities

• Beijing (place) gravity 0.0074 · momentum +0.010 · Q956
• Iranian (place) gravity 0.0030 · momentum -0.019 · Q9168

Signals

• edge_weight_recent 15.3
• edge_weight_prior 0.4
• factor 38.25
• event_count_recent 27
• window_days 30

Confidence (62%) 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 Beijing and Iranian 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 Watch for this signal move and the claim should weaken or be superseded.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 (8)

• 2026-08-21 11:30:00 · gdelt · 163 Impose embargo, boycott, sanctions · tone -7.84
  Iranian oil offers chinese buyers decline
  Iran · Beijing · Iranian
  source ↗
• 2026-08-21 10:15:00 · gdelt · 061 Cooperate economically · tone -7.40
  Iranian oil offers to chinese buyers fall as us blockade bites sources say
  Iran · Beijing · Iranian
  source ↗
• 2026-08-21 10:00:00 · gdelt · 163 Impose embargo, boycott, sanctions · tone -7.98
  Iranian oil offers chinese buyers fall us blockade bites sources say
  Iran · Beijing · Iranian
  source ↗
• 2026-08-21 09:15:00 · gdelt · 042 Make a visit · tone -4.02
  Iranian oil supply to chinese refiners squeezed by us blockade article
  China · Beijing · Iranian
  source ↗
• 2026-07-31 09:45:00 · gdelt · 013 Make optimistic comment · tone -6.04
  Us sanctions 10 chinese shipping companies over iranian oil trade claims
  United States · China · Beijing · Iranian
  source ↗
• 2026-07-31 08:45:00 · gdelt · 016 Deny responsibility · tone -4.58
  Us and israeli intelligence struggle to track iranian leadership amid base strikes
  Iran · Beijing · Iranian · China
  source ↗
• 2026-07-30 08:30:00 · gdelt · 015 Acknowledge or claim responsibility · tone -2.64
  In the waters off malaysia iranian oil sales continue despite blockade
  China · Malaysia · Beijing · Iranian · Iran
  source ↗
• 2026-07-24 21:00:00 · gdelt · 013 Make optimistic comment · tone -0.66
  Top chinese diplomat tells iranian counterpart beijing supports iran in safeguarding sovereignty
  Iran · Tehran · Beijing · Iranian · China · Shanghai · Washington · D.C.
  source ↗

Confidence history