The Island Chain Strategy

<h4>Description</h4> <p>The conceptualized lines (The first, second, and third island chains) and strategic locations of the Island Chain Strategy, a containment plan conceived by American foreign policy statesman John Foster Dulles. </p> <p>An interactive view of this dataset: <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=dba9ed8f2441472787b575baa583e048" target="_blank">Link</a></p> <h4>Source</h4> <p>All data were digitized from the <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/China_Report_2006.pdf" target="_blank">Office of the Secretary of Defense’s 2006 annual report to congress: Military Power of the People’s Republic of China.</a> For metadata, such as data description and available methods for geospatial data processing, please read the readme.pdf.</p> <h4>Terms of use</h4> <p>This dataset features in a collection of geospatial data <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6076193" target="_blank">"Geo-mapping databases for the Belt and Road Initiative"</a>. To cite this work, available citation styles can be found here: <a href="https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6076193" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6076193</a>  </p>