This article highlights China's increasing influence through information and cognitive warfare, emphasizing the threat it poses to US national security.
The launch of a vast amphibious assault ship adds to Beijing’s unprecedented military buildup, as detailed in the Pentagon’s latest report. However, we must not overlook the full scope of the threat that China poses to U.S. national security. China is undoubtedly an existential hard-power threat that must be countered.
However, it is also an ideological adversary, advancing rapidly in the realms of information and cognitive warfare — domains the People’s Liberation Army regards as its “fundamental function” and the “basis” of its operational success. Since President Xi Jinping assumed leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, he has pushed the PLA to expand an “ideological concept of information warfare,” a strategy it has pursued with notable results. Central to this approach is discourse power — the ability to shape global narratives. Yet Washington, still tethered to anachronistic, kinetic-centric notions of warfare, seems to have largely dismissed this tactic. The Pentagon report itself concedes the PLA “probably intends to use” information operations as an “asymmetric capability” against America and its allies. Probably? Such hedging reflects a dangerous complacency in the face of an increasingly clear and escalating threat. The desire of global powers, both established and aspiring, to control narratives is, of course, hardly novel. However, Beijing’s efforts stand apart for their scale and sophistication. After all, crafting a new world order is not just a matter of force but of shaping how the world perceives itself. For China, the closer global perceptions align with its own, the more effectively it can entrench its influence. China’s narrative control efforts take many forms, from the overt to the more insidious. In Africa, for instance, nearly every major CCP-affiliated news agency has a foothol
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