Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) are routine for the U.S. Navy and increasingly necessary to blunt China’s threatening presence in the South China Sea. Such operations in that area have served two purposes: first, to secure all vessels’ transit rights in global waterways; second, to prompt China to expose its low-intensity-warfare designs in the region.
According to Reuters, “China says U.S. undermining stability after U.S. warship sails through the Taiwan Strait a day earlier,” reporting that the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command harangued the United States for “undermining regional peace and stability” during a “routine Taiwan Strait transit.” The vessel that piqued Communist China’s ire was the USS Curtis Wilbur, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer.
Typically, China accuses the United States of the very behavior China exhibits. In the field of psychology, this is known as “projection.” For geopolitical-intimidation purposes, such false allegations, disinformation, and fabricated narratives fall into the category of “gray-zone warfare.” In other wars, these were referred to as propaganda campaigns. But today, gray-zone warfare is far more sophisticated. Liberty Nation has warned that China has become bolder in weaponizing information, explaining:
“China’s information operations do not depend on soldiers in the field but on feeding false narratives laced with half-truths to the target audience. Take one from among its many false narratives as an example. When it became clear that China was the culprit in not sounding the alarm that a world-threatening illness was developing in Wuhan, the regime put out a story that the U.S. military was the real perpetrator.”
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