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How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes
The Walking Dude writes "A lengthy article published in Culture Mandala details how China is using cyber warfare (PDF) as an asymmetric means to obtain technology transfer and market dominance. Case studies of Estonia, Georgia, and Project Chanology point towards a new auxiliary arm of traditional warfare. Political hackers and common Web 2.0 users, referred to as useful idiots (PDF), are being manipulated through PSYOPS and propaganda to enhance government agendas."
"A lengthy article published in Culture Mandala details how China is using cyber warfare (PDF) as an asymmetric means to obtain technology transfer and market dominance."
And when they've achieved their goals how will they feel when the next superpower does them the same way?
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Name one, just one other nation that the US has conquered.
One.
Conquering means that the US invaded, and that the subjects are now part of the US without voting rights. Like any minority in the islamic lands for example ...
Name one. Since the US "does this all the time" can't be that hard, now can it ?
What do you think freepers are? They may be dumb as bricks, but they know how to stay on message and work as a team.
Now they're really starting to lose it as Obama is practically a shoe-in. Expect them to start lashing out in the coming months, online and off-line. Everything from website vandalism to murdering people like that guy in Tennessee.
The national debt of USA is 10 trillions US $ and grows by 4 billions every day.
From this, China owns 4000 billions US $ in a governement bank somewhere, and this has doubled since 5 years.
The economic victory of China is only a matter of time.
Wars are expensive.
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No. Most of these weapons will likely never get used.
We're potentially entering a depression the likes of which we have only seen once before... Seems the key to getting over the hump in that one was the military-industrial complex.
No when faced with massive economic collapse the US would never use China as a means of ramping up military hardware production. By say... dangerously feigning interest in a war (or the potential for one) just to justify increased defense spending... Seems like a likely scenario and a razor thin line to try and walk. Especially with all the Unknown Unknowns out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Depression#Rearmament_and_recovery
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Our heavy trade relationship with China is based on the assumption that capitalism leads to democracy. But, what if this is not the case? If we are wrong, we've merely created another Soviet Union. Is there any current evidence that the premise is working? Chinese citizens seem as nationalistic as ever.
Table-ized A.I.
As one Chinese military expert put it, such an asymmetric information-based attack would render US military forces "blind," "deaf," and "paralyzed" (Cliff 2007). Direct, large scale attacks against US computer and information systems, either via disabling electromagnetic weapons or hacking, would be a part of this attack strategy.
Just so you know, a single high-altitude atomic detonation would create such a powerful EMP, it would fry any and all devices that use unshielded silicon chips. It would throw the victimized country back to an era of vacuum tube technology (assuming the infrastructure is tooled for production).
While such a scenario would be a "bloodless" war, the philosophy of MAD would quickly be put to practice. Given China's accelerated economic development and a billion chinese to look after, I seriously doubt they would walk down this path. As for religious countries with an axe to grind (and a nuke) such as Iran, Israel and Pakistan...we can only speculate their desires for an EMP war. At least two of those three don't have that much to lose. No doubt they would find it nice to level the technological playing field as well.
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