In addition to infiltrating and buying the media, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has launched a new tactic of unification warfare by integrating images, videos and animations to spread the Red voice.
The Chinese Communist Party’s new brainwashing strategy, “fusion media,” is used to conduct cognitive warfare against Taiwan. Taiwanese national security sources have revealed that the Chinese Communist Party has extended its tentacles of cognitive warfare against Taiwan to the newly emerging digital podcasting media Podcast (podcast), which has recently become popular. Scholars suggest that the best way to respond is to strengthen people’s media literacy skills.
The Epoch Times reported on October 18, 2020, that the Epoch Times obtained internal documents from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that reveal the current CCP propaganda and brainwashing strategy “fusion media”, which integrates CCP reports into all traditional and new media to strengthen the brainwashing effect on Chinese people. The CCP’s definition of fusion media is a new type of media that integrates radio, television, and the Internet to achieve “resource integration, content integration, propaganda integration, and benefit integration”.
For example, the People’s Daily has set up official accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. For example, the People’s Daily has set up official accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram to increase its information coverage and to guide public opinion.
According to national security sources, the CCP will “secondary process” official press conferences and press releases into short videos and post them on the official accounts of various social media platforms to enhance the propaganda power. In addition, the Chinese Communist Party will train Taiwanese netizens to claim to be Chinese and produce videos with statements such as “cross-strait reunification is imminent.
The Chinese Communist Party has shown evidence of using Podcasts for cognitive warfare, and Podcasts do not have the usual censorship mechanism for social media platforms. The Chinese government is concerned that the platform may become a hotbed for the Chinese Communist Party to disseminate controversial information to Taiwan and mislead listeners’ perceptions.
For example, China Radio International, the official media of the CCP, has set up as many as 158 programs on Podcast, with content such as “Cross-Strait Youth School” and “Cross-Strait Search”. In the name of “cross-strait Family relations”, the content is used to change Taiwan people’s negative impression of China.
In addition to the Podcast programs produced by the official media, the CCP also uses “self-media” to set up Podcast accounts with the identities of “land mates” to produce and broadcast “Taiwan-related content” that criticizes the ROC government and its governing team. content” programs.
Liu Shuting, a policy analyst at the National Defense Security Research Institute who has studied the CCP’s use of “integrated media” for cognitive warfare against Taiwan, told the Central News Agency that Taiwan is already under the veil of “information warfare,” and the academic community is still discussing how to further respond to the CCP’s continuously changing cognitive warfare The offensive. Although Taiwan people are generally alert to issues related to the mainland, but should not ignore that the Chinese Communist Party has the resources to continue to evolve cognitive warfare capabilities such as funding.
“Having the ability to recognize is a very important way to prevent,” Liu Shuting suggested, adding that it is important for the public to strengthen their media literacy skills and learn to distinguish and verify information on the Internet, since it is impossible to prevent the CCP’s cognitive warfare offensive against Taiwan at once.
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