When an Australian patrol aircraft met a Chinese jet over the South China Sea last month, the encounter quickly moved beyond airspace to digital space. Beijing’s subsequent coordinated online campaign shows that information operations are …
The court of public opinion is now a critical battleground in modern warfare, according to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). China’s newly established Information Support Force is not just responsible for the PLA’s vast information …
Japan in the past believed it was relatively safe from malign information operations, thanks to the linguistic barrier and a generally high level of public trust in traditional media. But in the wake of some …
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has undergone its largest restructure in nearly a decade, with Chinese President Xi Jinping placing key military organisations responsible for information warfare directly under the control of the Chinese Communist …
The Chinese government announced the establishment of a new arm of its military, the Information Support Force (ISF), on 19 April. The ISF is tasked with strategic support for network information systems that are under …




