Ordinary folk seem largely indifferent to such worrisome developments as the People’s Liberation Army’s constructing anti-access sensors and weaponry specifically to kill American soldiers, sailors, and aviators in large numbers. Namely that you can strike a cultural nerve by getting in Americans’ faces. If they overreact to an incursion that poses no direct threat, you’ve learned something.
This is a 24/7/365 endeavor, and it’s in keeping with venerated strategic traditions.Īfter all, Mao Zedong-the Chinese Communist Party’s founding chairman and military North Star- instructed his disciples that war is politics with bloodshed while politics is war without bloodshed. Three warfares refers to China’s all-consuming effort to shape the political and strategic environment in its favor by deploying legal, media, and psychological means. Now China will use what it learned about American psychology to sharpen its “ three warfares” strategy. government and military, as well as from the American people.Īnd so it did, judging from the subsequent uproar in the press and on social media. If I’m right, Beijing’s chief reason for floating a balloon over North America was to see whether it would elicit a response from the U.S. Sure, it may have gathered intelligence about military doings on the surface below, but that was a mere bonus. I guess that the Chinese balloon sighted over Montana and Missouri this week – and just shot down off the coast of South Carolina by an F-22 Raptor – was a trial balloon.
Weather balloon? Spy balloon? Nope, and nope.
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