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HUAWEI AND THE CCP?S WAR FOR INFORMATION DOMINANCE: The Huawei 5G confrontation is one very importan?

By Austin Bay

HUAWEI AND THE CCP’S WAR FOR INFORMATION DOMINANCE: The Huawei 5G confrontation is one very important battle in a long-term strategic struggle — the slow systemic war being fought by Communist China and the U.S.

Some 30 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party and its intelligence agencies bet digital-information delivery dominance would be a decisive advantage in a long-term struggle for global dominance. I emphasize delivery, for dominating the material and physical (equipment and infrastructure) means for delivering digital information gives the dominator an edge in providing, denying or subverting content — be it news, opinion or entertainment. Control the system, or be able to easily penetrate, manipulate or corrupt it, and you can secretly collect data on users, spy on users and, if you happen to be a CCP totalitarian, engage in intimate, personal blackmail in order to advance other political and economic schemes.

America is attacking China?s strategy ? very Sun Tzu. ?What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy?s strategy.? Read the entire essay.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 15, 2020 (boomark / email).