Cognitive battlespace the CCP's war for the mind
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“当前，认知域已经作为独立一域登上战争舞台，日益成为大国博弈的常斗之域、必争之地、胜战砝码.”
- 把准认知域作战之脉 - 中国军网
“The cognitive domain has emerged as an independent battlefield, increasingly becoming a regular arena for major power contests, a battleground for competition, and a key factor for victory.”
By Andrew Jensen, managing partner at the Iota Group
The Chinese Communist Party’s doctrine of “Cognitive Warfare” frames the human mind as a bloodless battlefield of geopolitical competition. While Western statecraft has long pursued “winning hearts and minds” as a supporting instrument, Beijing treats the cognitive domain as a critical, independent arena of confrontation in its own right — one spanning the full spectrum from peacetime competition to open warfare, echoing what People’s Liberation Army (PLA) thinkers have previously termed “unrestricted warfare”. By targeting not merely what, but how its own population, its adversaries, and the broader international community process information and reach decisions, the CCP pursues the ultimate Sun Tzu maxim: to subdue its enemies without fighting.
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