By John Hayward
https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-hayward/
Gen. Vincent Wen-fan Chen, deputy director of Taiwan’s National Security Bureau, warned in the current issue of the Indo-Pacific Defense Forum magazine that Communist China is moving forward on a long-established plan to solve its Taiwanese “problem” by “terminating Taiwan as it is.”
Chen said Taiwan is standing on the front lines against Chinese influence operations across the Pacific region.
Building on remarks he made in an October 2019 speech, Chen said Taiwan occupies a “unique” position similar to Ukraine and the Baltic states hovering on the edge of Russia’s sphere of influence, but Taiwan is geographically alone in facing “the most powerful party-state in history” in a struggle between “liberal democracy and totalitarian dictatorship.”
“From the perspective of cognitive warfighting, defined as the capacity to weaponize knowledge, Taiwan has a unique vulnerability because Mandarin Chinese is the common language for both China and Taiwan,” he noted.
“With the unrestrained resources in centralized policy at its discretion, Beijing could easily monopolize or overwhelm the Chinese-speaking audience to achieve the PRC’s goal of subliminal cognition manipulation,” he said, noting that Chinese journalists are literally required to pass tests to prove they understand and can regurgitate Communist ideology.
In addition to this information warfare and the worldwide “digital Leninism” engineered by dictator Xi Jinping, Chen said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is determined to “appropriate modern global means of production” to achieve its political goals and spread its ideology. He named China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive international infrastructure program also known as One Belt, One Road, as a primary means of using economic power to spread the CCP’s influence.
“Through its investment in think tanks, social organizations, and elite of other countries using Confucius Institutes, the CCP broadened its foreign influence to cultivate a pro-China public opinion in the world,” Chen wrote. The U.S. Department of Education just released a troubling report about the extent of China’s influence over American higher education through financial “gifts” and the Confucius Institutes program.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/10/22/taiwanese-official-china-plan-terminate-taiwan/