The Epoch Times ‘In Xi Jinping’s view, the war has already started on the most important battlefield: your mind,’ Mr. Gallagher said.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, will likely use TikTok in its effort to wage “cognitive warfare” against the United States, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) said.
“The CCP calls it ‘cognitive domain warfare,’ part of their larger political warfare strategy,” he said in prepared comments for a Nov. 30 hearing of the House Select Committee on the CCP.
Mr. Gallagher, who chairs the committee, said that the United States is struggling to respond to the threat, as the nation has no grand strategy or apparatus for confronting propaganda from authoritarian powers.
“Cognitive warfare is not something we tend to think about here in the West. Sure, we have ideas like soft power, but they’re not a national strategy,” he said.
“On the ‘smokeless battlefield’ of people’s minds, we don’t have a standing military at all.”
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