VIDEO: JSOU Snapshot: Chinese Influence and Cognitive Warfare

JSOU Snapshot: Chinese Influence and Cognitive Warfare by Think JSOU | Feb 24, 2025

“JSOU Snapshot is a series of short learning videos made just for you, busy special operations professionals, to educate and inform on topics of interest, confusion, controversy, and question. The objective of these short videos is to teach or clarify concepts that are important for you to know, in 5 minutes or less.

In this video, we ask “How does China think about influence and then employ it against its adversaries in our current operating environment?” It is well known that the world’s most powerful nations in the 21st century have found themselves in a struggle for influence. China has long understood the need to control messaging, and makes no effort to hide its strategy to do so, both domestically and globally. Let’s look at China’s approach to influence, in order to better understand the way China thinks about influence and how it uses influence to compete with its competitors in the modern operational environment.

Keep an eye out for more JSOU Snapshots in the near future!”