IPSC Strategic Intelligence Unit
Coercive pressure, plotted incident by incident.
The Indo-Pacific Pressure Incident Map places every recorded coercion event — military, grey-zone, economic and political — at its coordinates and moment in time, built from IPSC's structured signals corpus.
CH 01–04 · WHAT THE MAP TRACKS
Four channels of pressure, one picture.
Coercion rarely announces itself in a single domain. The map plots incidents across four analytical channels so that a patrol, a tariff and a speech can be read as one campaign.
Military activity
PLA patrols and drills, median-line and ADIZ incursions, carrier transits, missile and live-fire events — the kinetic signalling layer of the pressure campaign.
Grey-zone operations
Coast-guard enforcement patrols, maritime-militia swarming, cable interference, airspace restrictions and other coercive acts engineered to sit below the threshold of conflict.
Trade & economic coercion
Import bans, export controls, rare-earth and supply-chain leverage, investment screening and financial pressure directed at states and firms across the region.
Political signalling
Sovereignty statements, legal claims, diplomatic isolation moves and multilateral counter-signalling — the declaratory layer that frames every incident on the chart.
METHOD · SIGNAL TO CHART
From open sources to a single plotted point.
Every marker on the map is the end of an auditable pipeline. Nothing is plotted that cannot be traced back to a dated, sourced record.
Structured collection
Analysts run monthly domain briefs against official releases, specialist media and recurring data series across the region.
Schema & source validation
Each record passes controlled-vocabulary, date-window and citation checks before it can enter the master corpus. Rejected rows are logged, repaired and re-ingested.
Directional scoring
Signals are scored for magnitude, direction and confidence, then recency-weighted into weekly domain indices that reveal escalation and de-escalation trends.
Geolocated incidents
Scored incidents are placed at their primary geography with date, actors, channel and assessment — filterable on the live map by time, domain and location.
WHO IT SERVES
Built for people who brief others.
Policy & defence analysts
Track escalation geography week by week, distinguish genuine lulls from collection gaps, and anchor assessments to sourced incidents rather than headlines.
Corporate risk teams
See where grey-zone and economic coercion concentrates — shipping lanes, chokepoints, supply-chain nodes — and stress-test exposure against real incident patterns.
Researchers & educators
A citable, time-stamped incident record for coursework, fellowships and publications, aligned with IPSC's research centres and executive programs.
The pressure is on the chart. Read it.
Open the live map to explore incidents by channel, time window and geography — or contact the Strategic Intelligence Unit for briefings built on the underlying corpus.