Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has identified over 10,000 posts on social media platforms engaging in "cognitive warfare" aimed at influencing public opinion following the Trump-Xi summit. The posts, primarily targeting Taiwanese citizens, spread disinformation and propaganda.
Taiwan's Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) is transforming from a service unit into a strategic global node to counter the CCP's cognitive warfare targeting overseas Chinese communities. OCAC Vice Chairman Lee Yen-hui outlined three strategies: building cognitive resilience, deepening value narratives, and establishing cross-national collaboration networks. The council aims to transmit Taiwan's unique multicultural values through initiatives like the Taiwan Center for Mandarin Learning (TCML), contrasting with China's controversial Confucius Institutes.
Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan stated that future wars will span multiple domains including land, sea, air, cyberspace, and cognitive warfare. Inaugurating a defence manufacturing complex in Shirdi, Maharashtra, he highlighted the increasing role of AI, robotics, and drones in shaping future battlefields, which will extend beyond geographical spaces into digital ecosystems.
Beijing should adopt a more assertive approach to global cognitive warfare, Chinese scholars said, calling for more action amid a great power rivalry. The appeal was made by Wang Wen, dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University, and Ding Zhuang, an associate research fellow at the institute, who said in a paper last week that China should improve its cognitive warfare system with strengthened “cognitive sovereignty”. “It is necessary to move beyond the traditional,...
