China’s AI Cognitive Warfare: Manipulating Taiwan’s Reality? | CONNECTED Power and Principles
The contest over Taiwan’s information environment offers a window into the People’s Republic of China’s way of occupation. China shapes the conditions for political control before, during, and after conflict. This video’s examination of AI-enabled cognitive warfare and Taiwan’s efforts to build societal resilience provides contemporary context for the Irregular Warfare Center’s China’s Way of Occupation: Implications for Taiwan. The IWC research, led by SWJ’s own Dr. Ken Gleiman, examines how Chinese approaches to occupation employ narrative control, surveillance, coercion, political organization, and the fragmentation of resistance to consolidate authority, among other things. Together, they illuminate a continuum that deserves greater attention. The struggle over perceptions and social cohesion underway today will shape the human terrain of a future conflict and the conditions confronting both an occupying force and an organized resistance. The video below shows why the contest matters now and the IWC study provides the framework for understanding where that contest could lead.
