Once upon a time warfare was mainly boots on the ground, powerful guns and blowing stuff up by cunning and strategy, but in comparison, information warfare is subtle. It is defined as “the manipulation of information trusted by a target without the target’s awareness so that the target will make decisions against their interest but in the interest of the one conducting information warfare.”
Sorry blokes, but the skills required for information warfare are more suited to women whose strength is mental finesse over muscle. A generalisation for sure, but sexist? I hope so. Take offence if it makes you feel good.
Jacinda Ardern presents her story well and until recently she controlled the media narrative. Nevertheless, her Achilles heel is her inability to manage her ministers and make them deliver what she promised. It will bring her down in the end because this sorry pack of individuals do not ride shotgun for her; they are either missing in action or struggling to keep up. Certainly not delivering. The facts prove Ardern’s promises are spin deep.
Men and women are equal in status but unequal in performance. As an aside, the current melting pot of sexuality is an unappealing mess and my pity for pathetically muddled creatures of indeterminate sex is on par with my distaste. Make up your mind, I want to tell them, sympathetic to their oddly fragile faces, you are confused about your sexuality but don’t expect everyone else to entertain your madness.
It’s easy for the Chinese Communist Party to excel in information warfare when they control the media narrative. By contrast the ultimate capitalist, poor old Donald Trump, struggles to get ahead of the constant and predictable disinformation spread by unruly Dems who provide the American media narrative, and ours too, with jibes and innuendo that passes as news.
I’d hazard a guess that the CCP propaganda machine has more than a few female brains in the mix by now. Historically Chinese women struggled for equality. In 1949 the All-China Democratic Women’s Foundation was established. Renamed the All–China Women’s Federation in 1957, its purpose to eradicate the assumption that women are inferior to men.
Prior to the ACDWF/ACWF the wives of Chinese leaders set an example for Chinese women making it ridiculously easy for the CCP to direct women. Mao’s fourth wife, Jiang Qing, dispensed with her glamorous hair and clothing back in the 1930s and donned the most unflattering garb imaginable, cropping her beautiful long hair. No doubt she lied about the “improvements” when the CCP paraded her military look as a glowing example for all women.
Thhe ACWF website describes itself as “a mass organization that unites Chinese women of all ethnic groups and from all walks of life, and strives for their liberation and development. The mission of ACWF is to represent and uphold women’s rights and interests, and to promote equality between women and men.”
This statement is completely at odds with the heavily persecuted Uighur/Uyghur Muslim women in northwest China but the CCP don’t let this small detail disavow their notion that all Chinese women are on the path to equality.
“Muslim women whose husbands have been detained in Chinese internment camps are reportedly being forced to share beds with male government officials assigned to monitor them in their homes.”
A month after the report on their abuse, we discovered in December 2019 that they were forced to abort their babies.
The CCP won the information war about COVID-19 by controlling the narrative. The virus was evident during November 2019, and according to a recent Harvard Medical School study, cases may have occurred as early as August last year.
During December 2019 Chinese doctors were reprimanded by the CCP for warning their colleagues about the appearance of a SARS-like lethal pneumonia.
[On 1st January 2020] “A hospital in Wuhan posts on the Chinese social media platform WeChat that they are ‘fighting a mysterious pneumonia‘.
“Dr Ai Fen says she is reprimanded by a hospital disciplinary committee for ‘spreading rumours‘.
“The Wuhan Public Security Bureau detains eight people for spreading rumours about the virus, reporting it on a Chinese news programme, Xinwen Lianbo, a show watched by millions.”
The eight doctors disappeared, but when the number of COVID-19 cases overwhelmed the CCP’s ability to make dissidents vanish, they increased their spread of disinformation. If you can’t shut down your opponents you must keep the truth from your enemies using all means possible.
China kept the lid on COVID-19 for up to five months before warning the rest of the world of the major health threat. They are adept at presenting only the information they want the world to believe while keeping the inconvenient truth quiet. Hands-down the CCP leads the world in information warfare against their own people both inside China and outside it.
We might think exercising our Western freedom of speech protects us, but we would be wrong. A local capitalist recently described Donald Trump as a “grotesque, psychopathic, ignorant, lying megalomaniac maniac” demonstrating that anyone on any side of the political spectrum with usually admirable qualities and clear thinking can still lose the plot from time to time.
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