Indo-Pacific Record

Official defense and security texts, preserved as published and analyzed in context.

Collection is current; analysis is behind it. Records dated after 2026-08-24 are stored and awaiting screening. What these dates mean.

Indo-Pacific Record preserves what defense and security institutions across the region publish themselves — the original text, the date, the institution, and a per-run record of whether collection actually worked. Analysis is separate from the record, cites it, and is labeled as interpretation.

Coverage is selective. 1 of 4 declared desks collects today; the rest are labeled by what they actually are on Desks.

Latest records

As published.

The most recent records from the desks that collect, with original-language titles preserved.

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Desks

A desk is a declared collection scope. Its status says what it is, and every figure beside it is derived from configuration or from the corpus — never from intent.

4 declared desks. Only a collecting desk has a record count.
DeskStatusEnabled sourcesRecords
China Desk Live — collecting 5 3,574
Singapore Desk Shadow evaluation — not public 0 none — see status
Japan Desk Shadow evaluation — not public 0 none — see status
US Indo-Pacific Reference Desk Access blocked — not collecting 0 none — see status

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Latest analysis

The PLA Watch · No. 13 · week ending 2026-08-08

The PLA Watch: Scarborough Shoal, Platform Disclosures, and the Limits of Anniversary Week

The PLA's 99th founding anniversary produced a cluster of capability disclosures and a coordinated exercise response to Philippine legal moves at Huangyan Island, but reading them together requires separating deliberate messaging from institutional routine.

Benjamin Yang, Creator and Editor · 134 articles · 11 model-flagged

A legacy China Desk series, published under the predecessor masthead China Mil Watch and preserved with its original issue numbers, titles and URLs.

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What did not collect

Run 122 executed 4 collectors and recorded 0 execution failures, alongside 1 configured source with no working collector. An empty result has more than one cause and only one of them is healthy, so each source's own outcome is published rather than summarized away.

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