China Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregates of Political Violence and Demonstrations

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in China. The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries to track conflict trends over time.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in civilian-targeting events
• Comparing annual totals of political violence in China
• Forecasting demonstration frequency based on country-month aggregates

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Categorized by specific event types like civilian-targeting
• Sourced from ACLED expert monitoring

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents spatial analysis below the country level
• Full event-level data requires external registration
• Unknown total record count

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Expert-led monitoring and aggregation

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

China