How China Will Use Cyber Warfare To Leapfrog Foes 235
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."
The Golden Tool. (Score:3, Interesting)
"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?
Re:The Golden Tool. (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 [europa.eu] (search for "Published cases".
There's nothing really new here, except for possibly some alternate methodologies.
Re:Why would China do this? (Score:2, Interesting)
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 ?
This is hardly a Chinese problem (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
National debt of usa 10 trillions US $ (Score:1, Interesting)
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.
Re:Why would China do this? (Score:3, Interesting)
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 [wikipedia.org]
Re:National debt of usa 10 trillions US $ (Score:3, Interesting)
You realize that the trade imbalance is in OUR favor?
The T-bills are only promises to pay them. BTW, what happens if the USA defaults on a foreign enemy in presence of wartime?
The Big Question (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
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