Meridian Database
An index of US-China Cooperation for the Benefit of Humanity
Overview
In a time of escalating geopolitical tensions, some of the most important stories are being lost in the artificial noise: the reality of deep, ongoing collaboration between the world's two largest powers. Thousands of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, trade experts, and more, are working on problems that don't care about flags. Meridian's hope is to act as a counterweight to the artificial geopolitical noise by showing the reality of collaboration between some of the most important US and Chinese companies, businesses, organizations, and even government agencies.
The technical stack is as follows:
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
Meridian is centered around its database of US-China partnerships and their details. To provide more context regarding these partnerships to visitors, they are ranked in order of significance, on a scale from 0-100 in total.
In addition to the US-China partnership index, Meridian also features a database of laws and regulations, from both the US and China, governing business and trade between the two countries, as well as an index of some of the most groundbreaking scientific research papers published by or related to a US-China partnership, and finally, a directory of every individual partner entity involved in a US-China partnership.
Because of the nature of Meridian (small, neutral, and unfunded), a set of fine-tuned local LLMs are used to search the web and generate text regarding the respective entities.
Some things are changing quickly, so some details on this page may no longer be completely accurate, but the idea will be the same.
As of June 2026, Meridian's website launched as a public beta, though many features are still WIP and/or unavailable. This is a project created for the common good of humanity, and is not funded.
