Upcoming Cyberwars

Jamyang writes "In the run-up to the first anniversary of September 11, Taiwan's President has accused China of threatening Taipei with "terrorist" tactics in a speech that will fuel Beijing's current fury: "Communist China has accelerated development of 'unrestricted warfare' similar to terrorist methods," he said. Reuters man in Taipei reckon he's referring to "Unrestricted Warfare" [PDF] by leading PLA strategists - Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui - who famously argued that China should focus on "asymmetric engagement" in the 21st century. In fact, many related secret documents have leaked out of China lately. Taiwan's Defense Ministry is taking the threat of infowar very seriously, as can be seen in their 2002 Defense Whitepaper. If the U.S. gets tied up in a ground war in the Middle East, China's going to be real tempted ...."

Comments

Tom Clancy

[Jedi Alec]

I know it has been said before, but this is really too tempting. Are all government leaders using Clancy's latest novels to determine their course of action?

red flag linux

[kipple]

...and those evil linux 'hackers' in China will be prosecuted, then a joint-venture will pop up between China and the US to prosecute everything that has the word 'hacking' into it - expecially the linux kernel.

Damn, look at those linux guys, they have hacking also in the core of their operating system! thank god Palladium will save us.

now let's see your sense of humour :)

Re:The new reason for everything!

[pubjames]

Terrorism! That's the new blanket statement we can use for everything it seems.

I couldn't believe it the other day when I hired a video and the first five minutes was about the evils of pirating, and it ended by saying that the money from pirate videos supports drug smugglers and terrorists. I don't know why they don't just go the whole hog and add padeophiles to the list. And the French.

(Only joking Frenchies).

It's Because

[Greyfox]

We used nuclear weapons. As you know, that causes 8 squares of pollution and makes everyone hate you.