Beijing Waging Hybrid Warfare Against U.S.
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The People’s Republic of China is already engaged in a hybrid war with the United States, using a coordinated strategy of diplomatic, economic, military, cyber, and information domain attacks.
These efforts aim to further Beijing’s foreign policy objectives, which include displacing the U.S. as the global hegemon and reshaping the international order to benefit China.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) theory of hybrid warfare is a broad strategy aimed at expanding China’s global influence without direct military conflict. It blends cyberattacks, economic coercion, espionage, disinformation, and military posturing to undermine adversaries like the U.S. and its allies.
This approach aligns with the CCP’s Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) a whole-of-nation approach,
