Chinese strategic behaviour tracked across eight domains — force design and modernisation, power projection, operational incidents and posture, supply chain control, trade coercion, technology and digital ecosystems, dependency and vulnerability mapping, and financial and investment leverage. Published monthly from the IPSC signal corpus, with the classification protocol open to inspection.

Centre Lead

Dr Hugh S. Tuckfield

Founder and Executive Director, IPSC. Formerly senior adviser to Australian and international governments, INGOs and corporations, and an investment banker with Bankers Trust and Credit Suisse. Bachelor of Economics (Econometrics and Pure Mathematics) and Bachelor of Laws (Monash), PhD Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; fellowships at Oxford and WZB Berlin. Editor, Strategic Futures of the Indo-Pacific.

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Junior Research Fellow

Jamie Beatty

Emerging Scholar researching China's economic statecraft and investment as strategic leverage across the Indo-Pacific. BA Warwick; MA candidate, Waseda University GSAPS. Also a journalist and podcast host, and serves on YPFP Tokyo's security team.

Non-Resident Fellow

Davide Campagnola

Political researcher specialising in international security, East Asian geopolitics, and cross-Strait relations. Contributes to Taiwan News, the Lowy Institute, the Global Taiwan Institute, and the Toda Peace Institute. Two Master's degrees, University of Geneva.

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Non Resident Fellow

Xian Hong Say

MA International Relations and National Security, Curtin University. Worked with RSIS's Maritime Security Programme and interned at Future Directions International; recently completed a maritime governance project with Blue Security Australia on ASEAN.