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How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes

Posted by Soulskill on from the cold-war-two-point-oh dept.

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."

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  1. Re:The Golden Tool. by Halo1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And when they've achieved their goals how will they feel when the next superpower does them the same way?

    It's not like the current superpower doesn't use "cyber warfare" to obtain technology transfer and market dominance (search for "Published cases".

    There's nothing really new here, except for possibly some alternate methodologies.

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