U.S. expert Kerry Gershanek says the Chinese Communist Party is pursuing a series of war tactics against Taiwan, the United States and other countries in an attempt to bring them into its world hegemony. (Video screenshot)
Kerry K. Gershaneck, a U.S. expert on Chinese Communist political warfare, says the Chinese Communist Party is pursuing a series of war tactics against Taiwan, the United States and other countries in an attempt to bring them into its world hegemony.
Gershaneck, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer who has been a visiting scholar in Taiwan for the past three years, said his future has become uncertain as the Chinese Communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) increases its forces for the invasion. In an interview on Epoch Times’ “Crossroads,” Gershanek warned Americans that they should be aware of the tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party in its quest to defeat Taiwan and the United States without fighting a conventional war.
“They don’t want to win through dynamic, conventional or worse types of warfare,” Gershanek told show host Joshua Philipp. “Their method is to divide and conquer us through subversion, infiltration, media acquisition, media warfare, psychological warfare, legal warfare.”
According to Gershanek, the Chinese Communist Party has been sowing seeds of discord in Taiwanese and American societies, keeping people too busy dealing with internal conflicts to realize the external threats they face.
“We’re not paying attention to what China (the Chinese Communist Party) is doing, whether it’s through campaign interference, election meddling, whether it’s buying, coercing, intimidating our Major League Baseball (MLB) or National Basketball Association (NBA), or our major hotel chains, we’re just not paying attention to that,” he said. “We were so focused on the infighting that it slowly collapsed and we fell apart without even recognizing the war that China (Communist Party of China) was waging against us.”
Gershanek added that this “very vicious, internecine war” within the United States has caused the American people and the rest of the world to doubt themselves and the American model. As a result, American and global elites have embraced the totalitarian model peddled by the Chinese Communist Party, which disregards human rights, the rule of law, and the values enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and earlier documents.
“The ideas we were raised to believe in no longer resonate because the Chinese (CCP) model shows people the path to wealth.” Gershanek said, “The …… totalitarian model made us rich, and as the elite of Africa, as the elite of Central Europe, as the elite of other continents, we have unchallenged power. We will have unchallenged power because China (CCP) provides us with the technology and the knowledge that will allow us to maintain that power within the totalitarian Chinese (CCP) model.”
Asked about the media war, Gershanek told reporters that it involves not only state-run media, but also “once-legal” news outlets that have been taken over through money, infiltration and coercion to speak for the CCP.
“This is what we used to call a ‘puppet organization,'” he said. “By simply buying the parent company, you can control the news content in the editorial policies of these news organizations.”
Gershanek also highlighted the recent rise in the number of Chinese military aircraft disturbing Taiwan near its airspace, saying it was part of the Communist Party’s strategy to combat Taiwan’s morale.
Gschanek said, “That’s an operation that targets the psychology of the people and the military in Taiwan – again, in preparation for a real attack.” He noted that the “consistent narrative” of the Communist Party’s propaganda apparatus is that Taiwan has no chance of winning a battle against the dominant PLA armed forces.
“I’ve talked to very good people in Taiwan, and they all have a sense of powerlessness,” he continued. “Day in and day out, you see planes invading your airspace, you can see the planes and ships that they send around your island. Not sure the U.S. will support it, not sure Japan will support it, not sure Vietnam will support it, not sure if all these other countries will come to our aid. And of course you get demoralized.”
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