What leaders say—and don’t say—matters.

We built a structured dataset of official speeches from China and Russia
to support search and visual analysis of the language, themes, and trends shaping great power politics.

OFFICIAL SPEECHES, STRUCTURED FOR ANALYSIS

993 China Ministry of Foreign Affairs speeches (2005–2025) and 3,204 Russia Foreign Minister speeches, interviews, and appearances (late 2013–2025), prepared for search and text analysis.

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in Chinese and Russian Diplomatic Communications

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*For explanations of data terms, see the Data Dictionary.
OVERVIEW

Curated insights and tools
to generate your own.

Geopolitical Speech Lab transforms thousands of official speeches into structured, searchable data and interactive visualizations—so you can trace language patterns over time with clarity and consistency.

Rather than reading speeches one by one, you can compare how China and Russia prioritize key issues, track shifts in emphasis across years, and interpret rhetorical change in the context of global events.

4,000+
speeches analyzed
2
countries covered
67
keywords tracked
2005–2025
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For students, researchers, and practicioners.


Our Tools

Searchable, Downloadable Database of Speeches

Sourced directly from China Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Russia Foreign Minister speeches, updated through 2025.

Vizualizations of Keywords over Time.

Frequency analysis and comparative language patterns you can explore and track across years and major global events.

Aggregated Counts of Entities and Noun Chunks per Country

SpaCy-powered text analysis to demonstrate the countries, organizations, and topics that dominate diplomatic discourse.

Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency Statistics

See the most frequently used terms in each country's speeches, weighted by their importance across the corpus using NLTK.

Example

Russia Mentions of BRICS over Time

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After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, BRICS featured significantly more prominently in the speeches of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. By 2024, roughly 30 percent of his speeches and public appearances featured references to BRICS, potentially reflecting Russia’s priority of promoting alternatives to Western-led institutions and aligning itself with other emerging powers representative of the “global majority” in an emerging multipolar international system.

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