BEIJING — Drawing lessons from the Ukraine crisis, a top Chinese general urged greater integration of novel capabilities, including artificial intelligence, with conventional warfare tactics ahead of any confrontation with the West. A new genre of hybrid warfare has emerged from the Ukraine conflict, with the intertwining of 'political warfare, financial warfare, technological warfare, cyber warfare, and cognitive warfare,' General...
A giant screen displays a broadcast of news footage of military vehicles under the Eastern Theatre Command of China's People's Liberation Army taking part in a combat readiness patrol and 'Joint Sword' exercises around Taiwan in China on April 10, 2023BEIJING — Drawing lessons from the Ukraine crisis, a top Chinese general urged greater integration of novel capabilities, including artificial intelligence, with conventional warfare tactics ahead of any confrontation with the West.
In the name of national security and to fend off perceived threats from the West, Chinese efforts to prepare the country for security challenges have not relaxed despite a slowing economy and Covid-19. Defence spending is set to rise for the eighth straight year in 2023. "At present and in the future, local conflicts and turmoil are frequent, global problems are intensifying, and the world has entered a new period of turmoil and change," Wang wrote in Study Times.
Despite the hundreds of billions of dollars poured into defence spending, China's armed forces do not have much recent experience in a hot war, with its last — and brief — military conflict in 1979 with Vietnam.The PLA's combat-readiness in a hypothetical war has become a focus in recent months as China flexes its military muscle over Taiwan, putting itself in potential conflict with the United States.
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