State of Mankind

3. ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ With Chinese Communist Characteristics

d. The CCP Uses the Masses for Espionage



d. The CCP Uses the Masses for Espionage

The CCP regards information as simply another weapon in its arsenal. Regardless of the field, whether pertaining to the state, private enterprise, or individual endeavors, all forms of information are seen as fair game for the fulfillment of the regime’s strategic ...

3.c. Unrestricted Economic Warfare Is the CCP’s Heavy Weaponry(2)





Many startups in Silicon Valley need capital. China uses taxpayer money to invest in them in order to get its hands on new technologies, including rocket engines, sensors for autonomous navy ships, and 3D printers that manufacture flexible screens that could be used in fighter-plane cockpits.[42] Ken Wilcox, chairman emeritus of Silicon Valley Bank, said in ...

3.c. Unrestricted Economic Warfare Is the CCP’s Heavy Weaponry



If external foreign propaganda, perception-management, and united front work are the Party’s forms of soft power, then its high-tech industry must become the Party’s hard power. In the 1950s, the CCP’s slogan was to “surpass the United Kingdom and catch up with the United States” — but it was a farce. Today, however, the same strategy has become a legitimate threat.
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3. ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ With Chinese Communist Characteristics
b. United Front Work Aims to Disintegrate the Free World From Within(2)



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The CCP buys overseas scholars, especially China scholars, with money, status, and fame. Some such scholars then closely follow the CCP’s rhetoric, publishing books and articles to explain the CCP’s “peaceful rise,” the concepts of the “China dream” or the “China ...

3. ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ With Chinese Communist Characteristics
b. United Front Work Aims to Disintegrate the Free World From Within(1)



On December 18, 2018, the CCP celebrated the fortieth anniversary of so-called reform and opening-up. It awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal to ten foreigners in an attempt to “thank the international community for supporting China’s reform.” These ten foreigners included Juan Antonio Samaranch, ...