"establishment of a "three-dimensional space-ground-sea monitoring capability" in the polar regions" [three-dimensional space-ground-sea monitoring capability]
This verbatim policy goal from China's 14th Five-Year Plan R&D project directly evidences the state-level institutionalization of cross-domain (space/surface/undersea) integration as a unified strategic objective in the Arctic.
Reasoning from this article
The article shows that China's Five-Year Plans explicitly link polar, deep-sea, and space capabilities into a single R&D mandate, not as parallel programs but as an integrated 'three-dimensional' system. This represents a structural shift: a non-Arctic state is using technology-driven domain convergence to manufacture strategic presence in a region where it has no sovereign territory, a model potentially applicable to Antarctica and other global commons.