Economy71
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OCI means Observed Capacity Index · ACJ means Assessed Capacity Judgment
Country intelligence / public-value conversion
China Observatory
Tracks how economic transition, technology, demography and state capacity shape China’s regional and global strategy.
01 / China Observatory country lens
Power, capacity
and conversion.
Whether China can sustain external strategic ambition while managing slower growth, demographic pressure and uneven domestic confidence.
Technology76
76Demography38
38Civic space22
22Strategic reach66
66Public capacity52
52Shock resilience47
47Institutional trust43
43System synthesis
Material strength, institutional strain
02 / Issue signals
What to watch
03 / Framing tracker
How the system
is being read.
These are competing interpretations, not additional scores.
Tracks the policy claim, institutional owner and public-value consequence attached to this frame.
DominantTracks the policy claim, institutional owner and public-value consequence attached to this frame.
DominantTracks the policy claim, institutional owner and public-value consequence attached to this frame.
RisingTracks the policy claim, institutional owner and public-value consequence attached to this frame.
RisingTracks the policy claim, institutional owner and public-value consequence attached to this frame.
EmergingSupplementary method + sources
How to read the barometer.
- The common method is shown above this preserved prototype.
- The readings here are editorial hypotheses, not observed percentiles.
- Signals, frames and sources remain useful country context outside the index.
Legacy status: no current OCI or ACJ score is published for this country. The displayed values are retained only to make the earlier analytical experiment auditable.
01
Economic capacityWorld Bank Data
↗02Growth, trade, debt, population and development indicators
Security pressureSIPRI
↗03Military expenditure, arms transfers and security burden
Democratic institutionsV-Dem
↗04Electoral, liberal and participatory democracy series
Rights and freedomsFreedom House
↗05Political rights and civil-liberties assessments
Press environmentReporters Without Borders
↗06Press-freedom conditions and methodology
Social wellbeingUNDP
↗07Human development, inequality and capability indicators
Country evidenceNational Bureau of Statistics of China
↗08Official or specialist country source
Country evidenceChina Power — CSIS
↗09Official or specialist country source
Country evidenceLowy Asia Power Index
↗Official or specialist country source
Common method
How to read
this country case.
Six dimensions organize the evidence for China Observatory. Country-specific signals and sources appear in the dashboard above.
FULL METHODOLOGY ↗01Economic conversion
02Public-goods delivery
03Institutional capacity
04Shock resilience
05Civic and information integrity
06External conversion
Observed Capacity Index (OCI)Comparable public data, scored only when indicators, years and peer groups are disclosed.
Assessed Capacity Judgment (ACJ)Editorial interpretation, kept separate from observed data and presented with sources and caveats.