Assessment history

What changed, and why.

Material rating, confidence, evidence, and methodology changes will be recorded here. Scores do not update automatically from a news feed.

Initial Statecrafts release

National Advantage Observatory launched

Established the ten-capability comparison, five-position ordinal scale, four subcategory drivers per capability, confidence labels, evidence links, watch indicators, and one preserve-or-regain policy action per category.

  • Added Space as the tenth category.
  • Established a PRC high-end benchmark and now-to-15-year horizon.
  • Published methodology, source library, stable capability URLs, and structured data.

Revision discipline

A future entry should identify the old call, new call, decisive evidence, affected subcategories, and why the change is more than rhetoric. Historical entries remain visible.