Every project claim should show what it knows—and what it does not.

The counting rule

An announcement is not a disbursement. Completion is not operation.

Palimpsest records announcement, approval, contract, commitment, disbursement, construction, completion and operation separately. It preserves currency, price basis, sovereign guarantees, revisions and source clocks before any total is calculated.

One backbone, several evidence lanes

Coverage that can grow without flattening unlike facts

Priority ledger

From the global BRI universe to Gwadar and Kyaukpyu

• global portfolioGlobal BRI project identity and lifecycle ledger
  source_discovery

  project_identity, project_status, finance_commitment, disbursement

• economic corridorChina-Pakistan Economic Corridor portfolio
  source_discovery

  project_identity, project_status, contract, finance_commitment, debt, trade

• port and sezGwadar Port and Free Zone
  source_discovery

  project_status, ownership, contractor, port_logistics, employment, land, livelihood, environment

• transport clusterGwadar airport, roads, expressway and hinterland connectivity
  source_discovery

  project_status, contract, finance_commitment, port_logistics, employment, land

• public service clusterGwadar water, health, training and municipal service projects
  source_discovery

  project_status, finance_commitment, employment, livelihood, environment

• political economy clusterBalochistan minerals, energy, royalties and revenue distribution
  source_discovery

  ownership, contract, fiscal, employment, land, compensation, environment

• historical claim ledgerBalochistan political, civic and armed movement history as separate lanes
  taxonomy_ready_sources_discovered

  elections, conflict, legal_designation, human_rights, humanitarian, corrections

• economic corridorChina-Myanmar Economic Corridor portfolio
  source_discovery

  project_identity, project_status, contract, finance_commitment, trade

• port and sezKyaukpyu deep-sea port and special economic zone
  source_discovery

  project_status, ownership, contract, finance_commitment, port_logistics, land, livelihood, environment

• energy corridorChina-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines
  source_discovery

  project_status, ownership, energy, trade, land, livelihood, environment

• rail corridorMandalay-Muse railway and connected logistics
  source_discovery

  project_status, contract, finance_commitment, trade, land, environment

• partner overlayChina, Pakistan and Myanmar official drug-market country aggregates
  production_verified

  drug_market, legal_designation

Pakistan and Gwadar · target-specific readiness

CPEC, port, connectivity and public-service records stay claim by claim.

This lane keeps national finance context, provincial records and Gwadar-specific project sources at their published geographic grain. The broader registry associates 33 source families with this geography; the 5 target ledgers below name 9 distinct source routes directly.

Target status

5 source discovery

Source readiness

1 adapter ready · 3 link only · 5 planned

Public build-state gate

1 of 9 named routes

Rights states: 8 official publication review required · 1 open reuse. Build-ready describes a source route, not a verified project record. Link-only and planned routes are discovery, not ingestion; no status here proves construction, operation, attribution, local benefit or harm.

Myanmar · target-specific readiness

CMEC, Kyaukpyu, pipelines and rail remain separate evidence records.

This lane preserves the difference between official proposals, investment approvals, economic context and observed implementation. The broader registry associates 24 source families with this geography; the 4 target ledgers below name 5 distinct source routes directly.

Target status

4 source discovery

Source readiness

2 adapter ready · 3 link only

Public build-state gate

2 of 5 named routes

Rights states: 1 attribution · 3 official publication review required · 1 open reuse. Build-ready describes a source route, not a verified project record. Link-only and planned routes are discovery, not ingestion; no status here proves construction, operation, attribution, local benefit or harm.

Normalized economic context · production verified

Country-period context with forecasts, nulls and source clocks intact

This exact World Bank WDI bundle contains 3564 country-series-year rows across China, Myanmar and Pakistan. It keeps 0 source-marked forecasts separate from 1940 observed values and retains 1624 unavailable rows as null—not zero.

Coverage

1960–2025 · 18 indicators

Knowledge time

2026-08-26T13:17:34.790676Z

Role

context only · country period only

Rights

CC-BY-4.0 · World Bank, World Development Indicators

Point-in-time publication proof: Inspect the immutable receipt. Exact served bytes were verified at 2026-08-26T15:55:34Z; the release-verification freshness window ends at 2026-08-27T15:55:34Z and may already have ended. This is release-time proof, not continuous monitoring (verified_at_release_not_continuous_monitoring).

No row may infer a project, actor, corridor or causal effect. Inspect the normalized bundle · Validate its schema

NarcoScope integration

Country context beside the dossier—not a label on it.

The additive v2 bridge covers official country aggregates for China, Pakistan and Myanmar. Its only permitted join is geography plus time. It cannot classify a political movement, armed organization, community, person, project, bilateral route or causal chain.

Contract

narcoscope.palimpsest.corridor-aggregate.v2

Status

production verified

Inference

prohibited

Source and rights ledger

Open, pending, licensed and blocked routes all stay visible.

4 sources are live, 0 input is repository ready, 7 adapters are ready, and 1 licensed route is blocked from public redistribution. Link-only entries are discovery, not ingestion.

• MOFCOM Belt and Road investment and contracted-project releaseslink only

  Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China · primary record

  finance_commitment, contract, trade

  Rights: official publication review required. Aggregate ODI and overseas contracting series; never substitute newly signed contracts for investment or disbursement.
• Statistical Bulletin of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investmentplanned

  MOFCOM, NBS and SAFE · primary record

  finance_commitment, ownership, trade

  Rights: official publication review required. Country and sector ODI aggregates; stock, flow and non-financial ODI must remain distinct.
• China Belt and Road Portallink only

  Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Belt and Road Initiative · administrative position

  project_identity, project_status, contract, corrections

  Rights: official publication review required. Official announcements and policy framing; reported status is not independent completion verification.
• China Customs bilateral trade statisticsplanned

  General Administration of Customs of China · primary record

  trade

  Rights: official publication review required. Preserve reporter, partner, valuation basis, commodity classification and revisions.
• World Bank BRI transport-network replication datasetadapter ready

  World Bank · analytical estimate

  project_identity, port_logistics, trade, remote_sensing

  Rights: attribution. CC BY 4.0 replication files; modeled network and market-access scenarios are not current project-status records.
• World Development Indicatorslive

  World Bank · independent observation

  trade, fiscal, employment, energy, environment

  Rights: attribution. World Bank compilation of national context with indicator-specific upstream authority, modeled-estimate labels, revisions and source clocks; it is production-verified context, not independent project, actor, corridor or causal BRI evidence.
• International Debt Statisticsadapter ready

  World Bank · independent observation

  debt, fiscal, finance_commitment, disbursement

  Rights: attribution. Public and publicly guaranteed external debt aggregates; creditor coverage and timing must accompany every value.
• UN Comtradelink only

  United Nations Statistics Division · independent observation

  trade

  Rights: link only pending review. Reporter-partner-product flows; mirror asymmetries, CIF/FOB basis and revisions must be retained.
• World Economic Outlook Databaselink only

  International Monetary Fund · analytical estimate

  fiscal, debt, trade, employment

  Rights: link only pending review. Observed and projected years must remain distinguishable; check IMF reuse terms before redistribution.
• PortWatch trade-disruption and port-call estimateslink only

  International Monetary Fund and University of Oxford · analytical estimate

  port_logistics, trade

  Rights: link only pending review. Modeled trade and port activity; never represent as customs value or port-authority throughput.
• Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset 3.0link only

  AidData at William and Mary · independent observation

  project_identity, project_status, finance_commitment, disbursement, debt, ownership, contractor, environment

  Rights: link only pending review. Project-level research dataset using TUFF methodology; license and redistribution terms require review before ingest.
• China's Overseas Development Finance Databaselink only

  Boston University Global Development Policy Center · independent observation

  project_identity, finance_commitment, debt, ownership, contractor, environment

  Rights: link only pending review. Tracks CDB/CHEXIM public and publicly guaranteed loan commitments, not disbursements, repayments or total debt.
• China BRI investment and construction reportslink only

  Green Finance and Development Center · analytical estimate

  finance_commitment, contract, energy, environment

  Rights: link only pending review. Research estimates of construction contracts and investment; methodology and deal definitions travel with totals.
• China Global Investment Trackerlink only

  American Enterprise Institute · analytical estimate

  project_identity, finance_commitment, contract, ownership, contractor, energy

  Rights: link only pending review. Large transactions only under the producer's definitions; do not infer comprehensive coverage.
• Global Energy Ownership Tracker and Global Integrated Power Trackerlink only

  Global Energy Monitor · independent observation

  project_identity, project_status, energy, ownership, contractor, environment

  Rights: link only pending review. Current ownership and power-project tracker family; obtain and retain each dataset license and version before redistribution.
• CPEC official project portallink only

  Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Pakistan · administrative position

  project_identity, project_status, contract, finance_commitment, port_logistics, energy, employment

  Rights: official publication review required. Official CPEC portfolio and reported status; needs independent corroboration for completion, operation and outcomes.
• Gwadar Port Authority projects and operationslink only

  Gwadar Port Authority · primary record

  project_identity, project_status, ownership, contractor, port_logistics, land, livelihood

  Rights: official publication review required. Port-authority project record; capture release dates and archive each status revision.
• Pakistan Public Sector Development Programme and project documentsplanned

  Planning Commission of Pakistan · primary record

  project_identity, project_status, finance_commitment, disbursement, fiscal, employment

  Rights: official publication review required. Budgeted allocations and releases are not total project cost or verified physical completion.
• Pakistan debt policy statements and fiscal reportsplanned

  Finance Division, Government of Pakistan · primary record

  debt, fiscal, finance_commitment, disbursement

  Rights: official publication review required. Separate external debt, public debt, guarantees, contingent liabilities and creditor categories.
• Pakistan balance of payments, external debt and investment statisticsplanned

  State Bank of Pakistan · primary record

  trade, debt, finance_commitment, disbursement, fiscal

  Rights: official publication review required. Retain flow/stock, resident/nonresident, instrument and revision semantics.
• Pakistan trade, labour and price statisticsplanned

  Pakistan Bureau of Statistics · primary record

  trade, employment, livelihood

  Rights: official publication review required. Use published aggregate tables; provincial and district comparability varies by survey.
• Balochistan budget booksplanned

  Government of Balochistan · primary record

  fiscal, finance_commitment, disbursement, employment, livelihood, compensation

  Rights: official publication review required. Budget allocation, release and expenditure must stay separate; map project codes across years.
• Balochistan statistical publicationsplanned

  Bureau of Statistics, Planning and Development Department, Balochistan · primary record

  employment, livelihood, environment, trade, fiscal

  Rights: official publication review required. District aggregates provide the local baseline; survey dates and geographic definitions must travel with values.
• Balochistan development plans and project recordslink only

  Planning and Development Department, Government of Balochistan · primary record

  project_identity, project_status, finance_commitment, employment, land, compensation, livelihood, environment

  Rights: official publication review required. Provincial development record; preserve scheme identity and fiscal-year revisions.
• Election Commission of Pakistan results and party recordslink only

  Election Commission of Pakistan · primary record

  elections

  Rights: official publication review required. Electoral results and administrative records; political positions must not be mapped to armed actors.
• Pakistan list of proscribed organizationslink only

  National Counter Terrorism Authority Pakistan · administrative position

  legal_designation, corrections

  Rights: official publication review required. The published list describes itself as not a legal document; cite the underlying authority where available and never treat listing as adjudicated guilt.
• UK proscribed terrorist groups and statutory instrumentsadapter ready

  UK Home Office and legislation.gov.uk · legal instrument

  legal_designation, corrections

  Rights: attribution. Preserve effective date, statutory instrument and aliases as legal scope, not independent proof of conduct.
• US Federal Register foreign terrorist organization notice for BLAadapter ready

  US Department of State and Federal Register · legal instrument

  legal_designation, corrections

  Rights: public domain. US legal designation and aliases; administrative legal status is not an adjudication of every attributed event.
• OFAC sanctions actions and SDN changesadapter ready

  US Department of the Treasury · administrative position

  legal_designation, corrections

  Rights: public domain. Attributed administrative action, not a court finding; delistings and program authority must remain visible.
• UN Special Procedures communications concerning Balochistanlink only

  Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights · independent observation

  human_rights, conflict, corrections

  Rights: link only pending review. Communications transmit allegations and requests for response; they are not findings unless a separate adjudicative record says so.
• UCDP annual conflict aggregates (reviewed public context)live

  Uppsala Conflict Data Program · independent observation

  conflict, humanitarian, corrections

  Rights: attribution. Version 26.1 annual aggregate context is live at /readings/ucdp-aggregate-latest.json with its exact /readings/ucdp-aggregate-release-receipt.json. The reviewed Git lock binds the captured rights page, dated review and expiry, three required citations, and three immutable inputs; only annual administrative-area context crosses the boundary, never tactical coordinates or person-level dossiers. Country-year fatality bounds for Pakistan are national, not Balochistan-only, and no row supports NarcoScope actor, route, project, guilt or causal inference.
• ACLED conflict-event datablocked

  Armed Conflict Location and Event Data · independent observation

  conflict, humanitarian

  Rights: licensed no redistribution. No scraping or public redistribution; use only under an appropriate license and publish permitted aggregates.
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reportslink only

  Human Rights Commission of Pakistan · independent observation

  human_rights, conflict, humanitarian, corrections

  Rights: link only pending review. Civil-society reporting; retain allegations, sourcing and response status rather than promoting claims to findings.
• Myanmar-China joint statements on CMEClink only

  Ministry of Information, Myanmar · administrative position

  project_identity, project_status, contract, trade, energy

  Rights: official publication review required. Joint political and project-status statements; language such as promote or explore is not completion evidence.
• Myanmar Port Authority development projects and Kyaukpyu port pageslink only

  Myanma Port Authority · primary record

  project_identity, project_status, ownership, contractor, port_logistics, land, environment

  Rights: official publication review required. Port authority record; archive status revisions and keep proposals separate from operational assets.
• Myanmar investment approvals and company informationlink only

  Directorate of Investment and Company Administration, Myanmar · primary record

  project_identity, project_status, ownership, finance_commitment, contractor, employment, land

  Rights: official publication review required. Investment approvals and company records; approval is not disbursement, construction, completion or operation.
• Myanmar Economic Monitoradapter ready

  World Bank · analytical estimate

  trade, fiscal, employment, livelihood, energy, humanitarian

  Rights: attribution. Macroeconomic and household context; estimates, nowcasts and observed statistics must remain labeled.
• Myanmar Opium Survey 2025link only

  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · analytical estimate

  drug_market, livelihood, humanitarian

  Rights: official publication review required. Survey and remote-sensing estimates; uncertainty, geographic scope and crop-year definitions are mandatory.
• UN Myanmar humanitarian reportinglink only

  United Nations in Myanmar and OCHA · independent observation

  humanitarian, livelihood, human_rights, conflict

  Rights: link only pending review. Humanitarian aggregates and situation reports; population denominators, access constraints and publication dates must travel with claims.
• Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar annual reportslink only

  United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar · independent observation

  human_rights, conflict, corrections

  Rights: link only pending review. Mechanism reporting and evidence-preservation status; never expose protected evidence or convert investigative statements into adjudicated findings.
• Copernicus Sentinel-2 imageryadapter ready

  European Union Copernicus Programme · independent observation

  project_status, environment, remote_sensing

  Rights: open reuse. Use delayed coarse project-footprint change detection only; no tactical monitoring, person tracking or vulnerability mapping.
• China, Pakistan, Myanmar and the Belt and Road deep research reportlive

  Palimpsest · analytical estimate

  project_identity, project_status, finance_commitment, disbursement, debt, trade, port_logistics, energy, fiscal, employment, land, compensation, livelihood, environment, human_rights, conflict, humanitarian, corrections

  Rights: attribution. Reviewed non-tactical analysis route. Only the exact HTML and PDF reports plus a publication receipt are public. Machine sources, evidence, claims, run manifest and Markdown working report are withheld because those rows have no per-transform publication decision; the report does not authorize tactical, person-level, actor, route, project, guilt or causal joins to NarcoScope.
• NarcoScope China-Pakistan-Myanmar official aggregatelive

  NarcoScope · partner aggregate

  drug_market, legal_designation

  Rights: attribution. Production-verified v2 artifact at NarcoScope merge 5bf6a31cfd98e56dadca495f35b99ecb73c1d74f; exact artifact and schema bytes, REST, MCP 1.1.0 and MCP Registry 1.1.0 were independently checked. Geography-and-time-only join; no movement, actor, project, route, guilt or causal inference.