CHAPTER 6: CHINESE CYBERWARFARE DOCTRINES

Chinese Cyberwarfare Doctrinal Development

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been sensitive to continuous changes in international geo-political and geo-strategic contexts, as well as the changing nature of warfare overall. The PLA has fashioned responses to these nation-state strategic civil-military-political changes by developing appropriate military doctrines and strategies to meet future threats and challenges.

The Chinese PLA military doctrine has undergone a transition from “people’s war” to “people’s war under modern conditions”; this is a historical fact and pre-requisite. Subsequent tactical strategic references “limited local war” have changed similarly to “limited war under high ...

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