# China — International Atlas Release: `v100.0.13-international-research-integration-wip` Contract: `global-country-context-fairness-v1` `1.1.0` Mode: `equal-questions-distinct-contexts-evidence-layers` Route: `/international/countries/china/` API: `/api/v1/international/country/?code=CN` ## Registry context - Code: `CN` - Alpha-3: `CHN` - Official catalog label: People's Republic of China - Region: Asia - Entity type: United Nations member state - Coverage: Full supplied institutional report - Identity-selectable: yes, only as an explicit profile fact - Residence-selectable: yes, only as an explicit profile fact - Recognition note: No additional recognition note is required for this catalog record. ## Territory-language context - **Chinese:** official, territory estimate 90% - **Wu Chinese:** context record, territory estimate 6% - **Cantonese:** context record, territory estimate 5.2% - **Cantonese (Simplified script):** context record, territory estimate 5.2% - **Xiang Chinese:** context record, territory estimate 2.9% - **Hakka Chinese:** context record, territory estimate 2.3% - **Min Nan Chinese:** context record, territory estimate 1.9% - **Gan Chinese:** context record, territory estimate 1.7% - **Sichuan Yi:** context record, territory estimate 0.6% - **Uyghur:** official_regional, territory estimate 0.55% - **Zhuang:** official_regional, territory estimate 0.31% - **Mongolian (Mongolian script):** official_regional, territory estimate 0.26% Territory-level language data is descriptive context, not an individual identity probability. It may be incomplete, non-additive, or unable to represent local, signed, heritage, liturgical, or migrant language communities. ## Source-backed institutional overview A party-led comprehensive-national-security ecosystem linking state security, police, military intelligence, cyber and space forces, information support, political work, united-front activity, data regulation, and internal stability. ### Principal institutions and functions - **Ministry of State Security (MSS):** state security, counterespionage, foreign intelligence, and political security - **Ministry of Public Security (MPS):** policing, public order, domestic political security, and data-driven surveillance - **CMC Joint Staff Intelligence Bureau:** strategic military intelligence and all-source military analysis - **Cyberspace, Aerospace, and Information Support Forces:** cyber/EW, space reconnaissance, communications, and data fusion - **UFWD, Propaganda Department, CAC, and PAP:** elite outreach, information governance, internet regulation, and paramilitary security ### Required distinctions - A legal duty to assist state intelligence does not prove that every citizen, company, academic, or diaspora organization is actively tasked. - Separate overt united-front, academic, commercial, regulatory, and diplomatic activity from proven clandestine direction. - Use precise evidence labels for foreign attribution, party doctrine, independent reporting, and disputed claims. ### Oversight, accountability, and rights context Describe party control, statutory powers, data and counterespionage law, absence of independent judicial review, and rights concerns while preserving institutional distinctions. ### Responsible game and simulation applications - party-state tasking - whole-system collection pressure - technology-transfer ambiguity - domestic/foreign boundary differences Public summary: `/docs/international-research-v100.0.12/china.md` ## Identity and population safeguards - An ISO or supplemental code is a catalog and routing context, not automatic citizenship, legal nationality, national identity, birthplace, residence, ancestry, language, politics, religion, loyalty, or behavior. - A government, intelligence service, military, law, conflict, or security priority does not characterize every resident, citizen, migrant, minority, faith community, academic, business, or diaspora member. - Catalog languages are localization seeds, not a complete sociolinguistic biography. - Rare or cross-regional combinations remain valid when chronology, migration, family, education, residence, community, language acquisition, relationships, routines, or memory provide a causal bridge. - Missing identity or institutional facts remain unresolved rather than inferred. ## Equal research checklist - constitutional and political command structure - foreign intelligence - domestic security and counterintelligence - military and service intelligence - police and criminal investigation - border, maritime, and protective security - financial intelligence and anti-corruption - cybersecurity, cyber intelligence, and data governance - coordination and dissemination - legal authorities and oversight - civil liberties and human-rights reporting - religion, ethnicity, diaspora, and political-activity distinctions - international partnerships and liaison - source limitations, confidence, and contested claims ## International equity principles - Apply the same institutional questions to every country or area. - Separate formal law and organization charts from practical authority and behavior. - Separate official claims, independent confirmation, strong assessment, credible allegation, dispute, and unknowns. - Avoid democratic-versus-authoritarian moral shortcuts; examine incentives, oversight, rights, and performance in every system. - Account for unequal declassification, language access, archival visibility, propaganda, and source incentives. - Do not infer individual loyalty, morality, competence, hostility, diagnosis, or behavior from citizenship, language, religion, ethnicity, region, or government type. - Protected traits and identity metadata are never suspicion, guilt, threat, loyalty, competence, or morality scores. - Distinguish armed groups, criminal networks, political parties, religious bodies, civil society, ethnic communities, and peaceful dissent. - Preserve state-security rationales and human-rights criticism as separately sourced layers rather than forcing artificial consensus. - Keep operationally sensitive material non-actionable and use institutional/game-design abstraction. - Show uncertainty honestly; no coverage page is permitted to fabricate missing country-specific research. ## Safety boundary Institutional and game-design education only. Do not provide actionable surveillance, intrusion, evasion, coercion, forgery, sabotage, concealment, weapons, or violence instructions. ## Regional and research-queue context - Research status: `country-specific-report-backed` - Balanced research wave: `0` (workflow only; not a threat or importance score) - Coverage boundary: Country-specific detailed source plus applicable regional and cross-cutting research context. ### Regional lenses - [East Asia and Oceania](/international/regions/east-asia-oceania/): regional context only unless this record has a named section in the source. ### Cross-cutting lenses - [Multinational Intelligence, Law-Enforcement, Financial, and Security Cooperation](/international/regions/multinational-cooperation/): cross-cutting context; verify membership, legal effect, and country-specific practice.