China's Unidentified Air Conditions (UAC): An AI‑Driven, Sovereignty‑Focused Framework Within Integrated Air and Missile Defense

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China treats UAP as a sovereign security issue, building a centralized, data-driven UAC system under the PLA Air Force that pools radar, pilots, police, weather and observatories into an AI threat index, pursues technosignature research with the FAST telescope and CAS/UC Berkeley collaboration, uses incidents to justify broader airspace control, and, guided by researchers like Chen Li and a “Dark Forest” mindset, emphasizes information control and the risk of automated misclassification in crowded skies across the Indo-Pacific rather than alien contact.