http://www.strategypage.com/on_point/20201125204623.aspx
November 25, 2020
In March 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking to the National People's Congress, declared that the Chinese military's most important mission was "to win local wars under Information Age conditions."
Wen's use of "local wars" drew immediate reaction. Given China's territorial claims in Asia, locals such as Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan heard a threat.
As for the phrase "under Information Age conditions," media took that to mean the internet, interconnected global communications and pervasive information resources -- information's soft power side, to include propaganda to cover a Chinese "gray zone" war.
That was a legitimate but limited interpretation. Chinese military leaders have long pursued what are now called "information-centric" strategies. Sun Tzu (circa 500 B.C.) said the acumen of leadership was to win without combat. Convince an adversary that your army outclasses his -- an information operation -- and you gain a psychological and diplomatic advantage.
However, military analysts pointed out that Wen specified a violent (kinetic) action somewhere near China that must be won.
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And gropey joe wants to allow
china to take over the world.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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