Pressure Points analyses the Chinese military’s use of air and maritime coercion to enforce Beijing’s excessive territorial claims and advance China’s security and defence interests in the Indo-Pacific.

The project highlights and analyses open-source data, military imagery, satellite footage, official government responses and other resources to provide the public with a reliable and accurate account of the PLA’s regional activity from its excessive claims to intercept tactics. It also analyses the PLA’s unsafe military interactions with a range of countries and looks at the different ways in which countries do or don’t use their military forces to challenge China’s excessive claims in the South China Sea.