Commentary
The narratives and political messages conveyed by the U.S. corporate media during the 2022 midterm election campaign are a classic example of media warfare of which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would be proud. The Democrat-media complex playbook was right out of the Three Warfares strategy endorsed by the CCP Central Committee and the Central Military Commission in 2003.
Three Warfares is a non-kinetic strategy that integrates psychological, media, and legal warfare to achieve geopolitical-military objectives. China watchers have long described the Three Warfares as “war by other means.” Just as Prussian Gen. Carl von Clausewitz once said (paraphrasing), “War is politics by other means,” the reverse is also true for the language of politics amounts to political warfare (for example, defeat, victory, winners, losers, annihilate, destroy, etc.). Thus, it is no surprise that Democratic Party strategists—many of whom have long been enamored of the authoritarian methods of the CCP—have adopted the Three Warfares strategy to achieve Democrat political goals and objectives….