The United States must pursue an invigorated hybrid warfare campaign to exploit the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) enduring vulnerabilities, aiming to keep China too weak, distracted, or insecure to dominate East Asia. This offensive strategy capitalizes on the CCP's prioritization of narratives over facts, endemic corruption, excessive strongman rule under Xi Jinping, paranoia about U.S. intentions, and limited international allies.
U.S. operations should expose CCP hypocrisy, release factual data, conduct sabotage against illicit activities, and pursue aggressive intelligence operations where officials hide bad news. Such a campaign provides flexible policy options, anticipates predictable CCP responses, and bolsters hard power deterrence below the threshold of outright conflict. Key vulnerabilities include manipulated economic data, pervasive corruption evidenced by Xi's purges of over 5 million officials and 100 senior PLA officers since 2012, and Xi's personalist rule eroding institutional checks. China's dependence on the U.S. and its allies, coupled with its "wolf warrior diplomacy" alienating neighbors, further presents exploitable weaknesses.
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