Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled a major reorganization of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) last week, setting up a new strategic service arm in charge of information warfare, according to the Beijing Defense Ministry and state media.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on June 19, 2023. Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai …) last week, setting up a new strategic service arm in charge of information warfare, according to the Beijing Defense Ministry and state media.
Further details of the military reforms were not disclosed, but Western analysts said the changes appeared designed to further highlight the importance of information warfare in Brendan S. Mulvaney, director of the Air Force think tank China Aerospace Studies Institute, stated in a report that the changes were a significant military reform: “This new force appears to be the information communications base, responsible for“The Chinese see the ‘Information Domain’ as a domain of war unto itself; equal to the physical domains of air, land, sea, and space,” he added.
“Modern conflicts are competitions between systems and structures, where control over information equates to control over the initiative in war,” the outlet stated. Chinese organizations involved in developing hypersonic missiles and related technologies have benefited from American research, according to a report made public earlier this month by an Air Force think tank.
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