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Maps Lab

Exploring new ways to visualize China's global presence.
All maps are under active development.

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Members' maps and ready-made templates, one per screen.

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Master Map

Every layer in one view. Combine infrastructure, investment, energy, ports, and soft-power datasets on a single map to see how China's global presence overlaps across sectors and regions. Opens the explore app in a new tab.

Master Map

Every layer in one view. Combine infrastructure, investment, energy, ports, and soft-power datasets on a single map to see how China's global presence overlaps across sectors and regions. Opens the ex...

Global China Stories

Follow geolocated research stories along corridors, borders, ports, and markets — reported field accounts pinned to the places they describe, each linked back to the underlying data.

Global China Stories

Follow geolocated research stories along corridors, borders, ports, and markets — reported field accounts pinned to the places they describe, each linked back to the underlying data.

Build Your Own Map

Create custom visualizations by selecting datasets, applying filters, and combining different layers to explore China's global presence through your own lens.

Build Your Own Map

Create custom visualizations by selecting datasets, applying filters, and combining different layers to explore China's global presence through your own lens.

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Compare Countries

Pick two countries and compare them side by side across every MGC dataset: economic indicators, trade, investment, infrastructure, energy, ports, Confucius Institutes, state visits and arms transfers. Registered users only.

Compare Countries

Pick two countries and compare them side by side across every MGC dataset: economic indicators, trade, investment, infrastructure, energy, ports, Confucius Institutes, state visits and arms transfers....

All maps

9 maps, one per dataset. Each opens on the whole world; pick a country inside.

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Tools we are building now.

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Data Center

Browse the MGC datasets and download exactly the countries, years and layers you need, as CSV, Excel, JSON or GeoJSON. Registered users only.

Data Center

Browse the MGC datasets and download exactly the countries, years and layers you need, as CSV, Excel, JSON or GeoJSON. Registered users only.

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Tariff Tracker

Monitor tariffs, trade remedies, and countermeasures affecting China’s trade relationships, and see how policy shifts land across sectors and partners. Registered users only.

Tariff Tracker

Monitor tariffs, trade remedies, and countermeasures affecting China’s trade relationships, and see how policy shifts land across sectors and partners. Registered users only.

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Story Maps

Build and publish a scrollable map story: pick the datasets, pin the places, and write the narrative alongside them. Registered users only when it lands.

Story Maps

Build and publish a scrollable map story: pick the datasets, pin the places, and write the narrative alongside them. Registered users only when it lands.

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GeoAnalyst

Query the datasets by geography: draw an area, pull the projects, plants, ports and imagery inside it, and export what you find.

GeoAnalyst

Query the datasets by geography: draw an area, pull the projects, plants, ports and imagery inside it, and export what you find.