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Cognitive Warfare 101

Chinese report accuses US of global “cognitive warfare” and “mental shackles” at international forum.
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Colonization of the Mind —The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of U.S. Cognitive Warfare 中文版

At the Global South Media and Think Tank Forum held in Yunnan province earlier this month, more than 500 guests from 110 countries were served with copies of Colonization of the Mind: The Means, Roots, and Global Perils of US Cognitive Warfare, a report that accused the United States of fitting the world with “mental shackles.” The Xinhua Institute report cited the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID and USAGM as exposing “longstanding activities of exporting ideology, promoting ideological infiltration, manipulating international opinions, shaping foreign nations’ perceptions, and even conspiring to subvert sovereign governments.” This “washing of dirty linens,” the report argued, revealed only “the tip of the iceberg of the United States’ global ideological warfare.”


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