Posted on 03/27/2021 7:57:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Propaganda. Censorship. Disinformation. Espionage. Blackmail. Bribes. Sexual enticement. Coercion. Assassination. Kidnapping. Physical attacks. Gang violence. Cyber attacks. Malign influence campaigns.
These are just some of the weapons used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its all-encompassing war against the free world, according to Kerry Gershaneck, author of the 2020 book (pdf) “Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to ‘Win Without Fighting.’”
Dubbed “political warfare,” but also known by other names like “unrestricted warfare,” this mode of war stops just short of full-fledged military assaults. But it’s no less lethal, the author notes, given that the goal is to win against an enemy without firing a single shot.
The CCP is “willing to fight war with everything. There are no boundaries,” Gershaneck, who has been a visiting scholar at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University for the past three years, told The Epoch Times in an interview.
It’s a concept the West doesn’t understand, he said.
In his book, Gershaneck, who previously served in senior strategic communications and in counterintelligence assignments in the U.S. government and taught at universities in Southeast Asia, recounts drawing blank looks from instructors at the institutes that train State Department and Pentagon staff when he enquired about the topic.
“I may as well have asked them to explain how they taught quantum mechanics or matter-antimatter asymmetry, for they had no idea what I was talking about,” he writes, recalling an interaction a few years ago with instructors who taught public affairs at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia.
Institutional Ignorance
This ignorance, which pervaded successive U.S. administrations from the end of the Cold War up until President Donald Trump took office, was the result of the West being lulled into a false sense of security after defeating the Soviet Union,...
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The US has destroyed itself & this continues day by day.
We just hit the $190 Trillion current & future debt mark.
CCP bump for later....
It's not that we don't understand the concept, it's that we've been sold down the river by Dims and RINOs.
bkmk
The rot started with GHW Bush’s poor response to the Tien An Men Square protests.
GHWB was the best friend China ever had.
“We just hit the $190 Trillion current & future debt mark.”
Running up that kind of debt, and then devaluing the currency by printing tons of worthless paper is the best way to ensure equality in society. Everyone except those with ‘hard’ assets will equally have nothing.
You spelled Bill Clinton wrong.
E.g. selling the guidance system for MIRVs on ICBMs.
bookmark
I have to admit that I was suckered in by the CCP and their early coverage of Covid and their lockdowns. While their lockdowns did occur (based on Magellon GPS traffic data) I doubt that they ripped up roads, the huge fog machines in the street were for show, the films of people keeling over dead on the street, etc.
And in an amazingly short time. All of this in my lifetime.
Yeah, and Obiden will sacrifice America’s honor when it stands aside while the CCP enslaves the Taiwanese. Much of the Pacific rim countries, including Japan and Australia will have to acknowledge the new truth: America is a pussy.
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